Industrial scale continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) for production and grade transitions of poly vinyl acetate (PVAc) at the different reactor sizes was investigated. Such reactor is known to show oscillatory behavior and to have periodic limit points, particularly at high molecular weights. Four efficient novel hybrid optimization methods which use variable population size genetic algorith...

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...

Pyrolysis of low density polyethylene (LDPE) by equilibrium fluid catalytic cracking (FCC) was studied in a stirred reactor under different process parameters. In this work, the effect of process parameters such as degradation temperature (420-510°C), catalyst/polymer ratio (0-60%), carrier gas type (H2, N2, ethylene, propylene, Ar and He), residence time and agitator speed (0-300 rpm) on the c...

In this paper, control of a non-isothermal continuous stirred tank reactor in which two parallel autocatalytic reactions take place has been addressed. The reactor shows chaotic behavior for a certain set of reactor parameters. In order to control the product concentration, an optimal state feedback controller has been designed. Since concentrations of reactor species are ...

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 ...

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. (

Precise control over the segmented flow in a microchannel reactor offers an important tool for the optimization of reaction yield and productivity. The fluidic control over the reaction was demonstrated on the selective alkylation of benzyl cyanide to the monoalkylated product in a 250 μm microchannel reactor. The conversion of benzyl cyanide increased from 39.9% to 99.7% as a result of a 97% l...

Techniques of immobilization of microbial- cells have been established by multifunctional reagents such as glutaraldehyed on a solid support. Immobilized cell reactor was designed to demonstrate stability of cross linking of whole cells for the production of organic acids. An eighty-six percent conversion of glucose was obtained for an eight hour retention time. The immobilized cell reacto...