Integrating self-optimizing control and real-time optimization using zone control MPC

José Eduardo Alves Graciano

doi:10.1016/j.jprocont.2015.07.003

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Integrating self-optimizing control and real-time optimization using zone control MPC

2015-10-01

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José Eduardo Alves Graciano

Johannes Jäschke

G. Roux

Lorenz T. Biegler *

DOI：10.1016/j.jprocont.2015.07.003

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The combination of real-time optimization (RTO) and model predictive control (MPC) methodologies is widely used in the chemical and petrochemical industry to optimize continuous processes. However, often the setpoint updates computed by the RTO are not frequent enough to capture all disturbances. This leads to suboptimal process operation, because the system is not re-optimized after a disturbance, until it has reached its new (suboptimal) steady state. An efficient way to handle this issue is to include economic considerations in the design of the lower MPC layer. This is the main idea of self-optimizing control (SOC), where controlled variables are selected, such that keeping them constant results in near-optimal operation without requiring an RTO update. Thus, we argue that SOC is complementary to RTO, and we develop a new MPC strategy with zone control and SOC variable targets. In particular, we present an approach toward solving the problem of low-frequency setpoint updates, also when the active set changes. We demonstrate the performance of our approach in steady state and dynamic simulations, and compare it to a classic RTO/MPC combination. The results show that our approach improves the coordination between the RTO and MPC layers. As it gives better performance in between RIO executions, it also leads to a higher overall profit. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords:

Hierarchical control structure

Real-time optimization

Self-optimizing control

Model predictive control

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