Plantwide Control of a Cumene Manufacture Process

Abstract This work describes the application of the plantwide control design procedure of Skogestad (Skogestad, 2004) to the cumene production process. A steady state “top down” analysis is used to select the set of “self-optimizing” primary controlled variables which when kept constant lead to acceptable economic loss without the need to reoptimize the process when disturbances occur. Two modes of operation are considered: (I) given feed rate and (II) optimized throughput.