Research Article
Advanced Control of a Continuous Solution Copolymerization Process
Table 4
Parameters of the DMC to the servo 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 () | 1.500 | 2.500 | 4.000 | 2.000 | Reference trajectory parameter () | 0.002 | 0.001 | 0.010 | 0.001 | Sampling time () | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | 0.25 | IAE* | 99.245 | 11.976 | 209,180 | 365.420 |
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*IAE units: loop 1 (kg/h), loop 2 (−), loop 3 (kg/kmol), loop 4 (K).
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