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The most prominent example of process intensification by process integration is reactive distillation (RD), which can realize a high reactant conversion and a high purity of the target product in equilibrium-limited reaction systems. Reactive distillation is mostly used for single reactions, but realizations for multiple-reaction systems leading to more than one target product can also be found. In multipurpose chemical processes, the target product of a multiple-reaction system can be switched during the production. When combining fluid separation and multiple-reaction systems, e.g., in a RD column, it is challenging to find operating conditions that lead to the most profitable operation of the process. Economics optimizing control where an economic objective is employed in a model-predictive control framework has the potential to drive the process to the economic optimum during operation based upon a process model and online measurements. However, so far only few applications of such advanced process co...