Robust closed-loop dynamic real-time optimization

Real-time optimization (RTO) is a valuable tool for economic optimization of chemical process systems. Incorporating plant dynamics and model predictive control (MPC) behavior into the RTO problem can improve its performance by accounting for plant transitions under the action of its control system, resulting in a closed-loop dynamic RTO (CL-DRTO) formulation. This paper extends the formulation for direct inclusion of uncertainty handling. A …