Influence of the Location of the Internal Temperature Control Loop on the Performance of the Dual Temperature Control for Feed Temperature Disturbance

C. Marangoni, E. J. Zierhut, I. G. B. Parisotto, R. A. F. Machado and A. Bolzan

Abstract
A control strategy with distributed corrective action for distillation has been proposed and consists of a conventional dual temperature control combined with an additional column tray. In this work, we evaluated the influence of the location of this internal loop as part of the new proposal, compared to a conventional system. Tests were carried out in a 13-column tray distillation equipment and feed temperature was disturbed. Two different column trays from the stripping section were used (11 and 12) for internal decentralized temperature control, each one separately, plus the dual control of top and bottom temperatures. The results demonstrated that this proposed control approach with distributed corrective action is faster than the conventional one, regardless of the column tray in use. It was also determined that the internal loop close to the feed (disturbance) is more interesting as a way to minimize transients.

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Keywords
distillation, dynamics, distributed, dual control