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Welcome

This is the official home page of the Open Source project OptControlCentre a software package for the optimization of dynamic systems in energy and chemical engineering.

This Open Source Project derived from research on the Ph.D. project of Dipl.-Ing. Tobias Jockenhövel. The focus of this work is research on optimal start-ups and load shifts of power plants and chemical processes in real-time. The optimization methods include SQP Active Set and Interior Point methods as well as a stochastic approach using Simulated Annealing. In the course of this work, an user-friendly software package for dynamic optimization, the OptControlCentre (OCC), was developed. The OCC is based on MATLAB and has a powerful graphical user interface (GUI). OCC runs on every major platform such as Windows, Linux or UNIX.

An overview on the methods of dynamic optimization is given in the section Dynamic Optimization. The package OptControlCentre is described here with a couple of screen shots. The main emphasis in the development was Online Optimization, which is described in a special section.

The Open Source project OptControlCentre is hosted at SourceForge and available for public download. Please follow the instructions in the new Download section. The OptControlCentre together with this web page is still under development. Please stay tuned. Any suggestions and critics are very much appreciated. Please contact me for further information.

June 2002, Dipl.-Ing. Tobias Jockenhövel

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