A SUPERVISORY CONTROLLED SYSTEM FOR THE ALCOHOL-FREE BEER PRODUCTION PROCESS
Alcohol-free beer is of government interest for its social benefit of reducing alcohol-related risks and it is new product line in Vietnam. Of technical challenge in such production is the process of alcohol separation. Particularly, alcohol composition in beer is reduced to smaller or equal to 0.5% abv using a vacuum distillation column. The main product of the process is non-alcoholic beer and the secondary product is sellable alcohol with the composition up to 75% abv [3]. The objectives of our work are to improve the system performance [5] and propose the supervisory and control system for dealcoholization plant that can implement in many breweries in Vietnam.
industrial process control, modelling of dynamic systems, MPC.