Optimum Controllability of Distributed Systems based on Non-equilibrium Thermodynamics

摘要

Integration of process design and control is currently an active research area within the Process Systems Engineering community. Most of the existing approaches only analyse the controllability of a given set of design alternatives. Meeuse et al. (2000, 2001) have shown how non-equilibrium thermodynamics can be used to include controllability in the synthesis phase. Their approach addressed lumped systems only. In this paper we extend their approach to distributed systems, illustrating it with an application to heat exchanger example.