Blending, mixing processes are often supported by advanced process control systems to maximise margins from available component and heat streams. Since these model-based solutions require accurate and reliable data, in weakly instrumented processes, the unknown inlet concentrations and temperatures should be estimated based on the measured outflows. This work presents a method for the reliable estimation of multiple input variables of process units. The key idea is that the input estimation problem is formulated as a constrained recursive estimation task. The applicability of the method is illustrated based on a benchmark model of a blending system. The performance of the method is compared to the moving window and Kalman Filter based solutions. The results show the superior performance of the proposed method and confirm that the apriori knowledge-based constraints improve the robustness of the estimates.
