An Overview on Chemical Process Operation Optimization
Key Laboratory of Advanced Control and Optimization for Chemical Processes, Ministry of Education, East China University of Science and Technology, Shanghai 200237, China
Abstract This article first reviewed the history of process optimization. Process control, advanced control, and real-time optimization, together with scheduling and planning were then surveyed and the focuses were placed mainly on the research and application topics of real-time optimization. Multi-objective optimization, mixed integer linear programming and dynamic optimization problems were illustrated as typical examples of industrial operation optimization in real-time optimization, planning and scheduling layers. Finally, challenges in research and application of large-scale chemical process operation optimization, especially in process modeling and collaborative optimal control, were summarized.
