Closed loop identification of a distillation column

Author

van der Klauw, A.C. ; van Ingen, G.E. ; van Rhijn, A. ; Olivier, S. ; van den Bosch, P.P.J. ; de Callafon, R.A.

Author_Institution

Control Lab., Delft Univ. of Technol., Netherlands

fYear

1994

fDate

24-26 Aug 1994

Firstpage

275

Abstract

To improve the closed-loop operation of a distillation column, a model is needed for control design. To obtain the data, a closed-loop experiment is designed and executed. Models are obtained by applying the direct identification method and the two-step method to the closed-loop data. Both output error models and linear regression schemes based on orthonormal basis functions (ORTFIR) are used. It appears that a combination of the two-step method and an ORTFIR model in the first step gives good results. The results are compared with the currently implemented model, and show considerable improvement in prediction capability. The new model is currently used to redesign the control loop

Keywords

chemical technology; closed loop systems; control system synthesis; distillation; identification; process control; closed loop identification; control loop design; direct identification; distillation column; linear regression; orthonormal basis functions; output error models; two-step method; Chemical industry; Feedback systems; Identification; Process control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Control Applications, 1994., Proceedings of the Third IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Glasgow

Print_ISBN

0-7803-1872-2

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CCA.1994.381454

Filename

381454