Benefits of Closed-Loop Real-Time Optimisation

3 Benefits of Closed-Loop Real-Time Optimisation 

Data reconciliation is required to handle suspect or missing measurements if mass and energy balances do not close then the optimiser may fail. 

Costly expertise is required to maintain the system, requiring an engineer strong in the technology itself and very experienced with the process and its economics. 

Optimum operation is likely to be a function of feed composition. On many processes, susceptible to feed changes, the necessary on-stream analyser technology may not exist. The use of laboratory data introduces a delay which could cause the optimisation to be in error for many hours. 

The market for rigorous CLRTO applications has peaked the initial hype has been largely replaced with some level of scepticism, based on the experience of the users. In many cases the optimiser moved the process to a set of constraints and then did nothing 

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