A Study on the Structural Controllability of Chemical Processes Based on Relative Order Analysis

  • Lee, Byungwoo (School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Kim, Yoonsik (School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Chang, Tae-Suk (School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University) ;
  • Yoon, En-Sup (School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University)
  • 발행 : 1999.10.01

초록

The control performance of a chemical process is determined by process structure as well as the performance of controllers. Therefore, the concept of“controllability”should be introduced in the early design stage. Structural information makes controllability assessment possible by giving insights on the pathways of disturbances in the process. In this study, a simple procedure to evaluate controllability is suggested to screen out design alternatives using relative order analysis and structural decomposition. The effectiveness of the proposed method was validated by comparing the results with the case of dynamical simulation.

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