Distributed control of plant-wide chemical processes with uncertain time-delays

▸ A linear distributed control approach for complex chemical process plants. ▸ Dealing with uncertain time-delays in physical flow between process units and communication network. ▸ A network representation of linear plant-wide processes and distributed control systems. ▸ Delay effects studied based on the concept of dissipativity. ▸ A plant-wide linear control network design procedure developed.