Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of designing an indirect feedforward controller, also called cascade control, to regulate the product composition of distillation columns to overcome load disturbances. The overall controller is composed of two cascaded controllers. The primary controller is basically a low-gain controller, which uses slow (delayed) composition measurements to provide servo responses (composition control). The secondary controller has the structure of a high-gain proportional-integral (PI) controller with an antireset windup scheme, which uses fast temperature measurements at a given distillation tray to track the output of the primary controller. In this way, the secondary controller also provides protection against load disturbances. A simulated example is used to illustrate the functioning of the proposed controller.
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