Research Article
Advanced Control of a Continuous Solution Copolymerization Process
Table 3
Parameters of the DMC to the regulatory problem.
| | Parameters | Loop 1 | Loop 2 | Loop 3 | Loop 4 |
| | Convolution horizon | 48 | 111 | 26 | 4 | | Prediction horizon (PH) | 2 | 5 | 9 | 2 | | Control horizon (CH) | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | | Suppression factor () | 0.001 | 0.003 | 1.500 | 0.001 | | Reference trajectory parameter () | 0.002 | 0.001 | 0.010 | 0.001 | | Sampling time () | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | | IAE* | 6.946 | 0.121 | 23,803 | 1.744 |
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*IAE units: loop 1 (kg/h), loop 2 (−), loop 3 (kg/kmol), and loop 4 (K).
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