Subspace Model Identification and Model Predictive Control of a Semicontinuous Distillation Process

نویسندگان

  • Vida Meidanshahi
  • Brandon Corbett
  • Thomas A. Adams
  • Prashant Mhaskar
چکیده

Semicontinuous distillation is a process intensification technique for purification of multicomponent mixtures. The system is control-driven and thus the control structure and its tuning parameters have crucial importance in the operation and the economics of the process. In this study, for the first time, implementation of the model predictive control (MPC) on a semicontinuous process is studied. A cascade configuration of MPC and PI controllers is designed in which the setpoints of the PI controllers are determined via a shrinking-horizon MPC. The objective is to reduce the operating cost of a cycle while simultaneously maintaining the required product qualities. A subspace identification method is adopted to identify a linear, state-space model to be used in the MPC. The first-principals model of the process is then simulated in gPROMS. Simulation results demonstrate that the MPC has reduced the operational cost of a semicontinuous process by about 11%.

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تاریخ انتشار 2017