Chemical Engineering Research & Design, Vol.79, No.3, 274-282, 2001
Constrained multivariable control of fluidized catalytic cracking process using linear programming
Model Predictive Control has been used for control of the fluidized catalytic cracking process. The constrained optimization problem involved in the control has generally been solved in a piece-meal fashion in practice. For improved control, the optimization problem needs to be solved directly, that is, without decomposition. In a previous paper, the results of a direct solution using an LP formulation were presented on a simple mathematical model of the FCC process. In this paper, the results of the direct solution are presented on a comprehensive mathematical model of the FCC process. The results show that improved control performance can be obtained by including the constraints within the optimization problem.