COORDINATED CONTROL OF A FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING UNIT

A new approach to coordinated control in the chemical industries is pr esented in this paper. A Multivariable Model Predictive Controller (MV PC) is applied at the coordinating control level, The design and appli cation of the MVPC is introduced and demonstrated. A well structured, first principle dynamic model was developed for the regenerator/reacto r section of a FCC plant. The control experiments are carried out on a dynamic simulator based on the dynamic model and written in Matlab/Si mulink programming language.