Laboratory Plant of a Gas Distribution Network

This work shows the implementation of a laboratory – scale oxygen distribution plant built with the aim of being used as a benchmark for control and optimization of networked processes. The plant emulates the architecture and the main problems that can be found in real facilities which combine several complex processes linked with shared resources that impose the need of coordinated operation and control. The paper describes the plant and the corresponding models and its control system. Additionally several applications and test are suggested to be performed, including methods for optimization of large scale systems handling uncertain behaviour of process, parameter estimation techniques and distributed model predictive control.