Advanced process control

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Advanced Process Control (APC) is the technology for the (petro)chemical industries that makes it possible to control multivariable control problems. Since these controllers contains the dynamic relationships between variables it can predict in the future how variables will behave. Based on these predictions actions can be taken to maintain variables within their limits.