A distributed parameter approach to the control of a tubular reactor: a multivariable case

Author

Fliess, Michel ; Mounier, Hugues ; Rouchon, Pierre ; Rudolph, Joachim

Author_Institution

Centre de Math. et de Leurs Appl., Ecole Normale Superieure de Cachan, France

Volume

1

fYear

1998

fDate

1998

Firstpage

439

Abstract

The start-up and the shutdown of tubular fixed-bed reactors can be improved by an explicit trajectory design and active control. By using the inflow concentration as a control the outflow concentration can be changed in arbitrary finite time. Explicit series expansions of the control inputs are calculated using the distributed parameter system model. It is shown that these promising techniques are not restricted to the single-input case, but can easily be extended to certain multivariable models. The control laws derived are new in the scalar case

Keywords

chemical technology; delay systems; distributed parameter systems; multivariable systems; nonlinear systems; process control; active control; concentration control; delay systems; distributed parameter system; fixed-bed tubular reactors; multivariable models; nonlinear systems; Automatic control; Boundary conditions; Computer aided software engineering; Distributed parameter systems; Equations; Inductors; Mathematical model; Open loop systems; Symmetric matrices; Velocity control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Decision and Control, 1998. Proceedings of the 37th IEEE Conference on

Conference_Location

Tampa, FL

ISSN

0191-2216

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4394-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CDC.1998.760715

Filename

760715