Closed-loop Formulation for Nonlinear Dynamic Real-time Optimization**This work is sponsored by the McMaster Advanced Control Consortium (MACC) and the Ministry of Higher Education (MOHE), Malaysia

Dynamic real-time optimization (DRTO) is a higher level online strategy that exploits plant economic potential by making appropriate adjustments to the lower level controller set-point trajectories. In this work, we propose a closed-loop formulation for a nonlinear DRTO calculation in the form of a bilevel programming problem. A nonlinear differential algebraic equation (DAE) system that describes the process dynamic behavior is utilized with …