Simultaneous Design and Control of Chemical Plants

摘要

This book presents a set of methods proposed for the simultaneous design and control of chemical processes under the effect of external perturbations and parametric uncertainties. The proposed methodologies borrow tools from robust control theory to test the process stability and to calculate bounds on the worst-case process output variability and the process constraints. Thus, the proposed methods avoid the solution of dynamic optimisation problems which are computationally expensive and even prohibitive for the design and control of processes with several process units.