Numerical control for petrochemical installations

The main objective of this work is the design and implementation of a hierarchical control solution for chemical and petrochemical processes, namely the control and optimization of the ethylene pyrolysis reactor, the key-installation in the petrochemical industry. The hierarchical control structures are organized on two levels of automation: the execution level, which has to fulfill two important tasks: the data acquisition from the physical plant and the regulation of the major parameters of the process and the supervisory level, referred to the optimization of the production.