A SIMPLIFIED PREDICTIVE CONTROL FOR A SHELL AND TUBE HEAT EXCHANGER

In this paper a simplified predictive control design is applied for the controlling a temperature of a fluid stream using the shell and tube heat exchanger. The predictive control design based on Dynamic Matrix Control (DMC) involves the complicated inversion computation for higher dimensional matrix. Using DMC for controlling a temperature of the shell and tube heat exchanger, there is still a need for optimization of conversation of energy. The simplified predictive control is based on DMC, which reduces the computational complexity by exploring its internal mechanism. Finally the simplified Predictive Control is applied to shell and tube heat exchanger and the results of this control algorithm compared with the conventional PID controller and DMC based PID Controllers.