Integrating predictive control and economic optimisation

摘要

In most commercially available predictive control packages, there is an separation between economic optimisation and predictive control, although both algorithms may be part of the same software system. This method is compared in this paper with two alternative approaches where the economic objectives are directly included in the predictive control algorithm. Advantages and disadvantages of the schemes are pointed out and simulations are carried out using the Tennessee-Eastman process model.