Neural emulation applied to chemical reactors

In this paper, a real time recurrent learning-based emulator is presented for nonlinear plants with unknown dynamics. This emulator is based on fully connected recurrent neural networks. Starting from zero values, updating rate, time parameter and weights of the instantaneous neural emulator adapt themselves in order to estimate the process output. The contribution of this paper is to validate the emulator with experimental data from the batch reactor of National Engineering School of Gabes, Tunisia.