Model-Based Linear Control of Polymerization Reactors
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چکیده
This work addresses the design and performance evaluation of a control system for a class of continuous stirred tank reactors to produce homopolymers via free radicals. The control system claims to be of practical implementation in the sense that: (i) it manages both measurement types existing in this class of processes: continuous-instantaneous, and discrete-delayed with a periodic sampling-time; and (ii) its designing exploits the linear systems theory on the basis of the reactor model. The behavior of the control system, achieving stabilization of an open-loop unstable steady state, in spite of disturbances and parametric model errors, is discussed and illustrated via simulation highlighting the effect of the sampling time.
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