Integrated scheduling and control with closed-loop prediction ⁎ ⁎ Financial support from Research Excellence (ORF-RE) Award RE09-058 and McMaster Advanced Control Consortium (MACC)

Dynamic market conditions as a consequence of increased globalization, coupled with fluctuations in electricity prices brought about by the deregulation of energy markets, require process manufacturing plants to operate in a responsive manner in order to remain competitive. In particular, the quasi steady-state assumption that is typically applied in optimal scheduling does not hold in a highly dynamic operating environment, where the dynamics …