In chemical process operation, the purpose of control is to achieve optimal process
operation despite the presence of significant uncertainty about the plant behavior and …

Plantwide control is concerned with the structural decisions involved in the control system
design of a chemical plant (CS Foss, Critique of chemical process control theory, AIChE …

We consider control structure selection, with emphasis on “what to control”, for a simple plant
with a liquid-phase reactor, a distillation column, and recycle of unreacted reactants. Plants …

The systematic design of plantwide regulatory control structures for today's highly integrated
and interconnected chemical processes is an often neglected area of current process control …

Part I of this series presents a unified formulation of the problem of synthesizing control
structures for chemical processes. The formulation is rigorous and free of engineering …

At the preliminary stage of a process design, the optimum steady-state designs of various
process alternatives are often uncontrollable; ie, there are not enough manipulative …

One of the key components in the operation of chemical plants is the ability to operate over a
range of conditions while satisfying performance specifications. A method for determining …

The purpose of this paper is to stress the importance of selecting the right plantwide control
structure and the need for a formalized approach that can encompass the many issues that …

Fundamental Process Control focuses on the fundamental nature of process control, which
includes an extensive discussion on control methodologies. The first seven chapters are …

The synthesis of plant-wide control structures has resurfaced as the most important design
problem in process control. In this paper we provide a comparative analysis of various …