Distributed Control and Estimation of Sustainable Chemical Process Systems

由于日益增长的资金和环境压力，可持续工艺的设计和运行是化学工程科学和实践的核心挑战。可再生能源生产和废水处理过程需要以一致的方式运行，以满足性能和环境目标，并确保加拿大工业的生存能力。由于可持续进程高度整合以减少材料和能源消耗，这些进程是相互关联的子进程的复杂网络。传统的控制策略对于集成过程是有限的，因为它们固有的复杂性使得分析和控制设计在计算上是困难的。

Due to growing financial and environmental pressures, design and operation of sustainable processes are central challenges to chemical engineering science and practice. Renewable energy production and effluent treatment processes need to be operated in a consistent manner to meet performance and environmental objectives and ensure the viability of Canadian industries. As sustainable processes are highly integrated to reduce material and energy consumption, these processes are complex networks of interconnected sub-processes. Classical control strategies are limited for integrated processes as their inherent complexity renders analysis and control design computationally intractable.