A thermodynamic based plant-wide control dsign procedure of the tennessee eastman process

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In this work, we apply the systematic approach to plant-wide control design presented in [1], based on the fundamentals of process networks, thermodynamics and systems theory, to the Tennessee Eastman (TE) Challenge Process, deriving robust decentralized controllers that will ensure the stability of the complete plant. We take one step further in the control design procedure by completing it with the realization of the controllers. The inventory control laws proposed are derived from a set of control loops over the available degrees of freedom in the process.
The authors acknowledge the financial support received from the Spanish Government (MCyT Projects PPQ2001-3643) and Xunta de Galicia (PGIDIT02-PXIC40209PN).