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gPROMS ModelBuilder version 2.3.1

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Optimisation Entities<br />

5.3 Specifying control variables for an optimisation activity<br />

The user can specify the name of the Control Variables, Control type (Time-invariant, Piecewise-constant or<br />

Piecewise-linear) and Allowable values (Continuous, Binary, Enumerated, Integer or Special Ordered Set 1) in the<br />

Control tab (see Figure 5.2).<br />

Depending on the Control type selected, the user will have different options for the Allowable values. Details of how<br />

to specify these will be presented in the following sections.<br />

Selected variable<br />

(yellow frame)<br />

Time profile shown in the<br />

bottom cell matrix<br />

Drag to<br />

internally<br />

resize the<br />

workbook<br />

Figure 5.2: Control tab of Optimisation Entity<br />

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Selected in the middle group<br />

of radio buttons<br />

Button to delete variables<br />

5.3.1 Time-invariant controls<br />

The user needs to specify the Initial guess, Lower bound and Upper bound for both the Continuous and Integer<br />

control variables, as shown in Figure 5.3 and Figure 5.4.

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