Summary: MODEL PREDICTIVECONTROLOF SHELLBENCHMARK PROCESS
ShiruzAmjad and H. N.Al-Duwuish
King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals,
Departmentof Electrical Engineering
Dhahran, Saudi Arabia
[shiraz, hduwaish]@kfupm.edu.sa
ABSTRACT
Simultaneous control of overhead and bottoms
composition in a binary distillation column using reflux
and steam flow as the manipulated variables often proves
to he particularly difficult because of the interaction
inherent in the process. The development of model based
control ( M E ) theory in the past 20-25 years has
provided a framework which caters for the above
distillation control problem. MPC technology has
penetrated a significant portion of the process industries
and harvested large economical benefits. In this paper
model predictive controller is proposed for the control of
a two-input-two-output high punty shell distillation
column. The use ofthis controller allows for the impurity

Source: Al-Duwaish, Hussain N. - Electrical Engineering Department, King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

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