Model-Based Control Design For A District Heating Plant

This paper describes the design of unconstrained model predictive controller (MPC) and the corresponding simulation environment. The resulting controller is developed in Java programming language and implemented as a standalone application. The idea of this work is to test an MPC application in a distributed control system (DCS) run-time environment in a simulation mode before it can be implemented in the real process. Results show that developed MPC application is capable of controlling the simulated process in a stable manner and perform better than a PI controller under same conditions.