Destabilization control of a chaotic motor for industrial mixers

Industrial mixers are among the most expensive and ineffective equipment in food, drug, chemical and semiconductor industries. Chaotic mixing has been proposed to improve the energy efficiency and the degree of homogeneity using either mechanical or electrical means. This paper presents the destabilisation control of the DC motor (the agitator) for industrial mixing processes through the pole placement technique which is more analytically accessible compared with time-delay control proposed before. Theoretical derivation and computer simulation are provided to illustrate the controllable chaotic motion. Moreover, the mixing effectiveness is experimentally verified by an acid-base neutralization reaction.