Abstract
Operating a solar power plant with limited personnel employment, while providing an operation flexibility adequate to the necessary experimental work, requires a non trivial coordination of the different subsystems realizing the complex energetic conversion and the adoption of a composite automatic control system keeping the plant components at their stipulated operating conditions. The paper describes the basic concept and the practical organization of the control and supervision functions adopted for the central receiver solar powered plant built near Adrano (Sicily) in the frame of the Eurelios Project founded by EEC. In particular, results of an accurate simulation study and experience of the first months of real plant operation are taken into account when discussing the most significant aspects of operator-plant interaction for which quite peculiar solutions have to be devised to comply with the continuously varying (dynamic) plant operation.
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