Artículos de revistas
Optimizing model predictive control of an industrial distillation column
Fecha
2011Registro en:
CONTROL ENGINEERING PRACTICE, v.19, n.10, p.1137-1146, 2011
0967-0661
10.1016/j.conengprac.2011.06.003
Autor
PORFIRIO, C. R.
ODLOAK, D.
Institución
Resumen
The main scope of this work is the implementation of an MPC that integrates the control and the economic optimization of the system. The two problems are solved simultaneously through the modification of the control cost function that includes an additional term related to the economic objective. The optimizing MPC is based on a quadratic program (QP) as the conventional MPC and can be solved with the available QP solvers. The method was implemented in an industrial distillation system, and the results show that the approach is efficient and can be used, in several practical cases. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.