INTEGRATED CLOSED LOOP CONTROL AND PROCESS DESIGN

The joint design of processes and control is an integration technique that incorporates control requirements in the process design stage. This paper presents an integrated design methodology and illustrate it with an alternative design for a real plant of activated sludge processing. The process design obtained is not only optimum from the economic point of view, but exhibits certain previously fixed dynamic characteristics. The point of operation and the size of the processing units are obtained through mathematical programming, together with the parameters of the controller.