Dictionary of Electrical Engineering

Commonly used terms in the Electrical industry.

steady-state control
operation and mechanisms of the control system in which the main objective is to keep the controlled process in the condition where the state variables relevant to the controlled process performance are constant i.e., to keep the process in a required operating point. Steady-state control structure may be composed of several control layers, including direct regulatory layer, optimization layer and, eventually, other layers; steady-state control is widely used in chemical and power industries.