Advanced application of energy system's monitoring and control

The aim of this thesis is investigating the role of digital controls in the modern energetic systems through the implementation of monitoring and control application in different scenarios; industrial, civil, basic and applied research. All the monitoring and control systems were entirely developed, tested and installed during the three-year PhD research. The different applications are the following: • monitoring system of the emissions of a biomass boiler • control system of a hydropower plant • monitoring and control system of an innovative Wave Energy System (WEC) • monitoring system of level set For every application there is a specific corresponding technological environment, for example the control system of the hydropower plant has been integrated in the complex Distributed Control System (DCS) of the plant itself. In reverse, the core of the monitoring and control system of the innovative WEC and the monitoring system of level set is a simple and cheap microcontroller. The different researches are included in national and international research project including Biomass+ funded by “Maritime Italy-France Cross-Border Cooperation Program 2007-2013”, Seaspoon: verso la nuova energia del mare 2 funded by European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) and New Approach to the Optimal Control of Level Sets Generated by Partial Equations to Bridge the Gap Between Computational Mathematics and Control of Complex Systems funded by Air Force Office of Scientific Research (AFOSR).