Publications by Dominique Bonvin

A shortcut model for batch distillation columns using pertinent effective factors

A shortcut model is a low-order model that provides a simplified representation of a complex process, thereby enabling faster and more efficient analysis, design and optimization without the computational intensity of a full-scale model. For continuous dis ...

Elsevier2025

On speeding-up modifier-adaptation schemes for real-time optimization

Dominique Bonvin

The real-time optimization scheme “modifier adaptation” (MA) has been developed to enforce steady-state plant optimality in the presence of model uncertainty. The key feature of MA is its ability to locally modify the model by adding bias and gradient corr ...

2024

Output regulation via trajectory tracking for chemical reactors with jacket dynamics

Dominique Bonvin

This work deals with a control strategy to regulate homogeneous reaction systems in reactors equipped with a cooling jacket. The reaction system is expressed in terms of vessel extents and viewed as a single-input (the inlet coolant temperature), two-outpu ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2023

Real-Time Optimization of Wastewater Treatment Plants via Constraint Adaptation

Dominique Bonvin

An important requirement of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) is compliance with the local regulations on effluent discharge, which are going to become more stringent in the future. The operation of WWTPs exhibits a trade-off between operational cost and ...

MDPI2022

On improving the efficiency of modifier adaptation via directional information

Dominique Bonvin

In real-time optimization, the solution quality depends on the model ability to predict the plant KarushKuhn-Tucker (KKT) conditions. In the case of non-parametric plant-model mismatch, one can add input-affine modifiers to the model cost and constraints a ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2022

On the computation of extents of reaction with a limited number of measurements

Dominique Bonvin

This note investigates the computation of extents of reaction from a limited number of state measurements. It is shown that this computation differs depending on whether the transformation to vessel extents is based on the heat or the enthalpy balance. Acc ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Offset-Free Economic MPC Based on Modifier Adaptation: Investigation of Several Gradient-Estimation Techniques

Dominique Bonvin

Various offset-free economic model predictive control schemes that include a disturbance model and the modifier-adaptation principle have been proposed in recent years. These schemes are able to reach plant optimality asymptotically even in the presence of ...

2021

A perturb e d Port-Hamiltonian approach for the stabilization of homogeneous reaction systems via the control of vessel extents

Dominique Bonvin

The paper proposes a tracking-error passivity-based control scheme for the asymptotic stabilization of homogeneous reaction systems. The approach uses the concept of vessel extents in the Port-Hamiltonian (PH) framework. Concretely, the extent-based repres ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Real-time optimization of load sharing for gas compressors in the presence of uncertainty

Dominique Bonvin, Timm Faulwasser, Alejandro Gabriel Marchetti, Predrag Milosavljevic

This paper investigates the problem of load-sharing optimization of gas compressors in the presence of uncertainty. The objective is to operate a set of compressor units in an energy-efficient way, while at the same time meeting a varying load demand. The ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2020

Estimation technique for offset-free economic MPC based on modifier adaptation

Dominique Bonvin

Economic model predictive control formulations that combine online optimizing control with offset-free methodologies such as modifier adaptation have been proposed recently. These new algorithms are able to achieve asymptotic optimal performance despite th ...

ELSEVIER2020