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Terminal composition control of a binary distillation column

✍ Scribed by R.K. Wood; M.W. Berry

Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
1973
Tongue
English
Weight
766 KB
Volume
28
Category
Article
ISSN
0009-2509

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✦ Synopsis

Terminal composition control of a pilot scale binary distillation column operated under the control of an IBM 1800 digital computer has been studied for disturbances in feed flow rate. Conventional two point control, whereby the overhead composition is controlled by reflux flow rate and bottom composition by means of steam rate, was demonstrated to be unsatisfactory. Two alternate control systems, namely a noninteracting control system and a ratio control system were evaluated. The noninteracting control system was constructed from a transfer function representation of the distillation column dynamics, determined from a series of on-line pulse tests. The results show that a very significant improvement in the control of both compositions is achieved by using noninteracting control or the ratio control scheme suggested by Rijnsdorp compared to the behavior that results using conventional two point feedback control. However, the control performance obtained using noninteracting control was only marginally better than that using the ratio control scheme.

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