This paper describes various regulatory and advanced control schemes which can be applied to industrial gas headers. The intention is to exploit the buffering capacity for pollution control as well as improve flow stability for consumers. The control schemes are compared using a Monte Carlo simulation on a simulated case study and a sensitivity analysis is done to evaluate the impact of variations in the gas properties on the cost functions. A compensated linear model predictive controller (CLMPC) is implemented on a real industrial header and compared with standard proportional–integral (PI) control. It is found that gas emissions and consumer stability can be substantially improved by intelligently utilising the available pressure buffering capacity in industrial gas headers.

本文介绍了可应用于工业气体总管的各种监管和高级控制方案。目的是利用污染控制的缓冲能力，并提高消费者的流动稳定性。在模拟案例研究中使用蒙特卡罗模拟比较控制方案，并进行敏感性分析以评估气体特性变化对成本函数的影响。补偿线性模型预测控制器 (CLMPC) 在实际工业头上实现，并与标准比例积分 (PI) 控制进行比较。研究发现，通过智能利用工业气体总管中可用的压力缓冲能力，可以显着改善气体排放和消费者稳定性。