title: Nonlinear control of a multicomponent distillation process coupled with a binary distillation model as an EKF predictor.
abstract: The work is devoted to design the globally linearizing control (GLC) strategy for a multicomponent distillation process. The control system is comprised with a nonlinear transformer, a nonlinear closed-loop state estimator [extended Kalman filter (EKF)], and a linear external controller [conventional proportional integral (PI) controller]. The model of a binary distillation column has been used as a state predictor to avoid huge design complexity of the EKF estimator. The binary components are the light key and the heavy key of the multicomponent system. The proposed GLC-EKF (GLC in conjunction with EKF) control algorithm has been compared with the GLC-ROOLE [GLC coupled with reduced-order open-loop estimator (ROOLE)] and the dual-loop PI controller based on set point tracking and disturbance rejection performance. Despite huge process/predictor mismatch, the superiority of the GLC-EKF has been inspected over the GLC-ROOLE control structure.
authors.affiliation: Department of Chemical Engineering, Birla Institute of Technology and Science-Pilani, Rajasthan-333 031, India. amiya_jana@yahoo.co.in
authors.forename: Amiya Kumar
authors.initials: AK
authors.lastname: Jana
authors.forename: Saibal
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ganguly
authors.forename: Amar Nath
authors.initials: AN
authors.lastname: Samanta