A Nonlinear Dynamic Model of a Vinyl Acetate （醋酸乙烯酯的非线性动力学模型）.pdf

A Nonlinear Dynamic Model of a Vinyl Acetate Process by Rong Chen Kedar Dave Thomas Mc Avoy* Department of Chemical Engineering/Institute for Systems Research University of Maryland, College Park MD 20742 Michael Luyben E.I. Dupont Co. Wilmington, DE ABSTRACT: This paper discusses a public domain model of a vinyl acetate (VAC) process. The VAC process is large enough to be representative in its essential features of many chemical processes. The process model contains 246 states, 26 manipulated variables, and 43 measurements. Parts of the model, e.g. the azeotropic distillation tower, are highly non-linear. An earlier model of the same process was published, but it was implemented in proprietary software. Both the source code used to generate the results in this paper and a compiled version are available to the public and the paper discusses how they can be obtained. The modeling approach used and differences with the earlier VAC model are discussed in detail. Simulations are presented which show the agreement with earlier results. The goal of the paper is to provide a readily available simulation that can be used as a testbed for advanced control approaches, such as plantwide control design and optimization, model predictive control and process monitoring. INTRODUCTION For several years, researchers in plantwide design, optimization and control areas have expressed interest in getting realistic test problems for assessing new technologies.