摘要：AbstractThis work aims to improve corporate functional departments’ confidence in adopting modern control approaches in new scenarios and thus presents control structure solutions based on MPC for two control problems facing existing upstream oil & gas production plants; these are the disturbance growth in the series connected process and the control system dependency on operators. The proposed approach integrates distributed MPC (DMPC) as a master controller for the existing classical control of each subsystem, with a focus on those with high interaction phenomena. The proposed DMPC also considers safeguarding, constraints and the enhancement of plant-wide optimal performance. The suggested control solution reduces the role of control room operators which is shown to reduce the growth in the impact of process disturbances. Compared with some alternative control structures (centralised MPC, decentralised MPC, distributed MPC (DMPC), and hierarchical DMPC) this proposal is simple, inexpensive to implement, and critically, builds on the local team operational experience and maintenance skills.
关键词：KeywordsDistributed model predictive controlProcess ControlUpstream Oil & Gas
