Multi-objective optimal control of chemical processes using ACADO toolkit

Many practical chemical engineering problems involve the determination of optimal trajectories given multiple and conflicting objectives. These conflicting objectives typically give rise to a set of Pareto optimal solutions. To enhance real-time decision making efficient approaches are required for determining the Pareto set in a fast and accurate way. Hereto, the current paper illustrates the use of the freely available toolkit ACADO Multi-Objective (www.acadotoolkit.org) on several chemical examples. eywords: ulti-objective optimisation ynamic optimisation ptimal control The rationale behind ACADO Multi-Objective is the integration of direct optimal control methods with scalarisation-based multi-objective methods enabling the exploitation of fast deterministic gradientbased optimisation routines. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. pen source areto set