Adaptive Model Predictive Control of A Divided Wall Column

Because of lower energy consumption and lower capital cost, divided wall columns attracted wide attention# the main challenge of these units is their controllability# in this investigation dynamic simulation and control of a divided wall column is investigated and an adaptive model predictive controller has been used for control purpose# for dynamic simulation the aspen dynamics software and for applying control strategy the matlab software have been utilized# the model used for model predictive controller has been obtained using open loop responses of the system# the main advantage of presented work over the existing ones is using the input-output transfer function of the system model instead of using state space one# in this approach, there is no need to measure or estimate all sate variables of system and only input-output data are required# the effectiveness of the applied control strategy has been demonstrated via simulation study#