The problem of regulating the biomass growth rate at its maximum value in an open-loop unstable, continuous, non-monotonic biological reactor using biomass measurement and manipulation of substrate feed rate is considered. An Output-Feedback controller is designed exploiting the reactor open-loop stability and inherent observability properties and the relative degree structure to obtain robust ...

Biological sulphate reduction is a new technology that can be used for the treatment of wastewater containing high amounts of sulpates and metals. The objective of this work was to investigate the feasibility and efficiency of biological sulphate reduction in a sulphidogenic jet loop biofilm reactor using hydrogen as electron donor. Polystyrene balls (qty: 265g, size > 2mm, density: 135 kg/m 3 ...

Adaptation of network weights using LevenbergMarquardt (LM) training algorithm was proposed as a mechanism to improve the performance of Artificial Neural Networks (ANN) in modeling the Tennessee Eastman (TE) chemical process reactor. A Neural Network of the AutoRegressive, eXternal (NNARX) input model was developed. Four sub-models for the TE reactor were built. They are: the reactor level, th...

—The article deals with the cascade nonlinear control of a chemical continuous stirred tank reactor. The control is performed in primary and secondary control-loops where the primary controlled output of the reactor is a concentration of the main reaction product and the secondary output is the reactant temperature. A common control input is the coolant flow rate. The controller in the primary ...

—Bulk reduction of reactor power within a small finite time interval under abnormal conditions is referred to as step-back. In this paper, a 500MWe Canadian Deuterium Uranium (CANDU) type Pressurized Heavy Water Reactor (PHWR) is modeled using few variants of Least Square Estimator (LSE) from practical test data under a control rod drop scenario in order to design a control system to achieve a ...

To demonstrate the applicability and feasibility of AI technology in nuclear fields in China, a fuzzy controller to control the reactor power of China Advanced Research Reactor (CARR) is designed in this paper. The fuzzy controller uses Mamdani inference system based 2 inputs-power difference and power period, 1 outputvelocity of control rods. To evaluate the performance of the fuzzy controller...

This paper considers the modeling and control of a tubular fixed bed reactor with recycle stream for dimethyl ether (DME) production. For simulation purposes, a pseudo homogeneous model has been developed. By reactor simulation under steady state condition, effects of parameters such as feed rate, pressure and shell temperature are investigated. Using the steady state model, an optimizer that m...

Micromixing in a tubular polymerization reactor is characterized by the molecular mass of polystyrene obtained in the presence of a chain transfer agent. Monomer and the transfer agent are fed separately into the reactor. For constant overall inlet concentrations, the mean molecular mass produced is strongly dependent on mixing intensity. Experiments were carried out in a pilot plant loop tubul...