MODELING AND CONTROL OF AN INDUSTRIAL AZEOTROPIC TRAIN

This paper analyses both the steady-state and dynamic behaviour of an azeotropic train of columns from an existing industrial plant so as to assess the requirements and the operative policy necessary to allow h eat integration, simultaneously contemplating a significant increase i n the plant's productive capacity. The main features of the problem ar e the presence of strong nonlinearities and a high degree of sensitivi ty. An appropriate control policy was designed on the basis of the dyn amic results.