Smoluchowski 's coagulation equation with coagulation rates K 0 oc (ij) ~ describing the temporal evaluation of the size distribution ck (concentration of k-mers) is studied in the presence of a source term ark, and a sink term --bCk. With a' a/b 2 one finds that a steady state is reached, exhibiting gelation when w > 1⁄2 and a ' > ao(w), where a0(o~) depends on w (ao(w) = ~ for ~o < 1⁄2, ao(1)...

This paper presents simulation experiments on the continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) which is widely used equipment mainly in the chemical industry. The behaviour of these types of systems is usually nonlinear with other negative properties such as a time-delay or a non-minimum phase behaviour and simulation could help us with the understanding of them without making real experiments which ...

A previously developed immobilization technique involving agar as matrix is investigated further in penicillin production by P. chrysogenum ATCC 10238 at reactor level. Several modifications were found to decrease the germination lag time, including a higher spore concentration, an increased porosity of gel, and decreasing the mass transfer barrier. This approach enabled the production of penic...

Enzyme catalysis in two-phase systems, particularly in the functionalization of siloxanes, is a new challenge for biocatalysis. On the basis of three different reaction systems, stirred tank reactor, enzyme membrane reactor and micro mixer, the influence of the phase boundary layer along the interface between an aqueous system and an organosiloxane on the synthesis of hydroxyalkylfunctionalized...

This paper presents control of the nonlinear system represented by a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR) using MATLAB’s Graphical User Interface (GUI). This simulation provides computation for various values of the input variables, which made this program universal for the wide range of the users without theoretical knowledge about modeling, simulation, and control. (

Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR) plays an important role in the process industries. It helps for maintaining the temperature of the liquid in the reactors. This paper deals with the comparison of adaptive control and conventional PID control in CSTR process. In the adaptive control, Model Reference Adaptive Control (MRAC) and Self-Tuning Regulator (STR) methods are used. The Recursive Lea...

this paper presents a predictive control strategy based on neural network model of the plant is applied to Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR). This system is a highly nonlinear process; therefore, a nonlinear predictive method, e.g., neural network predictive control, can be a better match to govern the system dynamics. In the paper, the NN model and the way in which it can be used to predi...

The influence of enforced periodic concentration variations on a continuous stirred tank reactor was studied theoretically. The unsteady-state-processing becomes advantageous under certain conditions. This can be shown for an irreversible consecutive-competing reaction. The yield and selectivitv of the intermediate oroduct can exceed the values obtainable at steady-state-processing in the menti...

The dynamics of a network of autocatalytically replicating species in a continuously stirred tank reactor can be described by a replicator equation in the limit of small flux rates.