Economics-based NMPC strategies for the operation and control of a continuous catalytic distillation process

Journal of Process Control

Volumn 22, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1832-1843

  Idris, Elrashid A N ^a   Engell, Sebastian ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Continuous catalytic distillation; Non minimum phase behavior; Nonlinear model predictive control; Online dynamic economic optimization; Static gain sign change

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS CATALYTIC DISTILLATIONS; ECONOMIC OPTIMIZATION; NON-MINIMUM PHASE BEHAVIOR; NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; SIGN-CHANGE;

DISTILLATION; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROFITABILITY;

OPTIMIZATION;

EID: 84870451364     PISSN: 09591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jprocont.2012.10.005     Document Type: Article

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