the proliferation of information and communications technology (ict) along with the incremental growth in the use of cloud services, enterprise network and data center technologies in recent years, have caused unprecedented expansion of computer networks. however, the existing network architecture was not well designed to meet the requirements of today's needs. one of the most important pr...

Plant-wide control system design for economically optimum operation of a recycle process with side reaction is studied. The process consists of a liquid phase CSTR followed by two simple distillation columns. The exothermic irreversible reactions A + B → C (main reaction) and C + B → D (side reaction) occur in the CSTR. The reactor effluent is distilled in the recycle column to recycle the ligh...

The synthesis of plant-wide control structures is recognised as one of the most important production-management design problems in the process industries. This article proposes a closed-loop control structure utilising production performance indicators (pPIs) as a possible solution to simplify this problem. pPIs represent the translation of operating objectives, such as the minimisation of prod...