Identification and constrained multivariable predictive control of chemical reactors

The basic idea of this paper is to present the identification and constrained multivariable predictive control of an industrial chemical reactor. In the literature, there are numerous papers that discuss and investigate the design and control of chemical reactors. Most of them emphasize steady-state aspects or stability questions. Although, only a few of them present results and conclusions that have application in the design and control of industrial reactors and none of the articles applies predictive controllers or bounded-parameters models. During the last few years predictive control has received an increasing attention from industry because this technique gives understandable and intuitive solutions to industrial problems. Predictive controllers are model based, that is, one needs an explicit model of the system in order to perform the control. So the paper is divided in two parts: the chemical reactor identification and the control strategy.