PLANTWIDE CONTROL OF ACETYLENE HYDROGENATION PROCESS

Abstract

As an application of Plantwide control, where few papers have been published about the integrated process design and control of complete plants, the acetylene hydrogenation process has been considered as the goal of this research. Firstly, all plant units were controlled separately using PID controllers, then, complete plant control was based on the 15 steps of Luyben’s plantwide control strategy. An acceptable overall plant control behavior was achieved in terms of settling times and overshoot. An improvement was also, noticed on the plantwide control application when cascaded controllers are used for the developed control system. The improvement was clearly on the temperature control.

Keywords

• Plantwide control
• Acetylene hydrogenation process