Economic performance assessment of advanced process control with LQG benchmarking

Abstract Economic performance assessment of advanced process control is conducted to investigate performance potentials that can be obtained by control system improvement. An optimization-based approach for economic performance assessment of the constrained process control is integrated with the LQG benchmark in this paper. By explicitly incorporating uncertainty into the performance assessment problem, economic performance evaluation can be formulated as a stochastic optimization problem, which helps to identify the opportunity to improve profitability of the process by taking appropriate risk levels. Using the LQG benchmark to estimate achievable variability reduction through control system improvement, the proposed method provides an estimate of both the performance that can be expected from the improved control system and the operating condition that delivers the improved performance. The results obtained can serve as a tool for control engineers to make decisions on control system tuning and/or upgrading. The proposed algorithm is illustrated via simulation examples as well as an industrial example.

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