Nonlinear Model-based Process Control: Applications in Petroleum Refining

✍ Scribed by Rashid M. Ansari PhD, Moses O. Tadé PhD (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag London
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 247
• Series: Advances in Industrial Control
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

The series Advances in Industrial Control aims to report and encourage technology transfer in control engineering. The rapid development of control technology has an impact on all areas of the control discipline. New theory, new controllers, actuators, sensors, new industrial processes, computer methods, new applications, new philosophies ... , new challenges. Much of this development work resides in industrial reports, feasibility study papers and the reports of advanced collaborative projects. The series offers an opportunity for researchers to present an extended exposition of such new work in all aspects of industrial control for wider and rapid dissemination. The last decade has seen considerable interest in reviving the fortunes of non­ linear control. In contrast to the approaches of the 60S, 70S and 80S a very pragmatic agenda for non-linear control is being pursued using the model-based predictive control paradigm. This text by R. Ansari and M. Tade gives an excellent synthesis of this new direction. Two strengths emphasized by the text are: (i) four applications found in refinery processes are used to give the text a firm practical continuity; (ii) a non-linear model-based control architecture is used to give the method a coherent theoretical framework.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xxiii
Introduction....Pages 1-6
Model-Based Control: Literature Review....Pages 7-39
Inferential Models in Non-Linear Multivariable Control Applications....Pages 41-58
Non-Linear Model-Based Multivariable Control of a Debutanizer....Pages 59-78
Non-Linear Model-Based Multivariable Control of a Crude Distillation Process....Pages 79-110
Constrained Non-Linear Multivariable Control of a Catalytic Reforming Process....Pages 111-142
Non-Linear Multivariable Control of a Fluid Catalytic Cracking Process....Pages 143-182
Conclusions and Recommendations....Pages 183-188
Back Matter....Pages 189-232

✦ Subjects

Industrial Chemistry/Chemical Engineering; Control, Robotics, Mechatronics