An improved economic‐based nonlinear model predictive control strategy for the crude oil distillation process

Improving performance and increasing process profitability represent a priority for the long‐term operation of the crude oil distillation process. To increase process profitability and maintain control performance, in this paper, an improved economic‐based nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) s...

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Published in:Canadian journal of chemical engineering 2018-11, Vol.96 (11), p.2408-2419
Main Authors: Jin, Qibin, Feng, Zhenxiang, Liu, Qie, Du, Xinghan, Zhang, Yuming, Cai, Wu
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
CDU process
Computer simulation
Coupling
coupling weighting factor
Crude oil
Distillation
Economic models
economic NMPC
Nonlinear control
Nonlinear dynamics
Predictive control
Profitability
Regression models
Strategy
Support vector machines
SVR model
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Summary:Improving performance and increasing process profitability represent a priority for the long‐term operation of the crude oil distillation process. To increase process profitability and maintain control performance, in this paper, an improved economic‐based nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC) strategy is used to optimize the crude oil distillation (CDU) process. Considering the strong coupling and nonlinear dynamics of the CDU process, we make some modifications for the existing NMPC strategy. To reduce the complexity of the nonlinear prediction model, a support vector regression (SVR) based model is employed to describe the dynamical behaviour of the CDU process. Considering the coupling of the CDU process, we propose the concept of the coupling weighting factor to modify the objective function of the NMPC optimization problem. The simulation results demonstrate the effectiveness of the proposed improved NMPC algorithm for the CDU process.
ISSN:0008-4034
1939-019X
DOI:10.1002/cjce.23148