Adaptive Model Predictive Control of Batch Systems

Adaptive Model Predictive Control was applied on a semi-batch reactor and a batch distillation column. It was shown that AMPC is capable of regulating batch operations with product performances similar to that of NMPC and it requires a computational time significantly lower. Furthermore, the robustness of AMPC was tested introducing some process mismatch in the process model. Therefore, it was shown that some recursive tuning might be necessary to increase robustness