Abstract: The objective of the study is to develop level controller for conical tank system using Model Predictive Control (MPC) and compare its performance with conventional Discrete Time Proportional Integral Derivative control (DTPID). The nonlinear property of the conical tank is divided into different operating zones and process model is obtained for each zone. The overall process is divided into 6 operating zones and different control schemes such as DTPID and discrete time MPC were simulated in MATLAB environment. Among these two control schemes MPC resulted with better transient performance in all the six operating zones.