Abstract Design of a control structure in distillation columns involves selecting proper sets of
manipulated and controlled variables (often including tray temperatures for inferential …

In the offshore oil and gas sector large quantities of gas, oil, and water are extracted from the
underground reservoirs and transported to the topside separation facilities where the three …

To minimize the energy usage of distillation systems, past researchers have developed
algorithms that exploit the driving force of distillation, which is the difference in vapour and …

Recently, energy consumption has become a crucial consideration especially for energy-
intensive distillation process. This issue becomes worse for a multicomponent process …

This thesis presents an integrated and simultaneous solution framework for obtaining a
robust energy-efficient distillation columns sequence. Several methods for robust energy …