A new modular photochemical continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTR) design is described, based upon the development of light-source units that can be fitted to previously described fReactor CSTR platform. In addition use in homogeneous reactions (e.g., photoredox-catalyzed hydroamination), these are especially well suited handling multiphasic mixtures, exemplified here solid–liquid (Wohl–Ziegler...

Stirred tank reactors are one of the most commonly used equipments in industry for achieving mixing and reaction. Flow fields in a stirred reactor are obtained via computational fluid dynamics. In this work CFD is used for the simulation of a reactive flow process consisting of a second order reaction. The extent of reaction is found to depend on impeller speed and its position from the bottom ...

Because of the interdependence of the elements in this food chain, continuous oscillations among the variables are possible. A set of three differential equations was obtained to describe the above system in a continuously fed stirred tank reactor. The differential equations obtained were examined to characterize the possible types of solutions. A limit cycle solution was obtained for some valu...

Robust static feedback stabilization of linear systems with uncertainties and bounded control inputs is studied. Necessary and sufficient conditions of positive invariance of polyhedral domains with respect to motion of uncertain linear systems are formulated together with conditions ensuring the asymptotic stability of uncertain linear systems with bounded control inputs. The problem of robust...

A new fast defuzzification method is presented. It is based on estimating the centroid position by fitting the fuzzy output shape into one single triangle. In regard to the computational time, this method is comparable to the “Bisector” method and provides better dynamical behavior. This new method was tested to control a second order plant and a benchmark Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR).

Identification of operating regime based models of nonlinear dynamic systems is addressed. The operating regimes and the parameters of the local linear models are identified directly and simultaneously based on the Expectation Maximization (EM) identification of Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM). The proposed technique is demonstrated by means of the identification of a neutralization reaction in a ...

This paper shows that any thermodynamic potential fulfilling some thermodynamic stability criterion (e.g. the chemical affinity or the ectropy) can be used as a potential function for the dissipative (pseudo) Port Hamiltonian formulation of the non isothermal Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR) model. Besides Brayton-Moser formulation is used to obtain some dissipative Port Hamiltonian repre...

We consider a mathematical model for a bacterial population in a continuously stirred tank reactor (CSTR) with wall attachment. This is a modification of the Freter model, in which we model the sessile bacteria as a microbial biofilm. Our analysis indicates that the results of the algebraically simpler original Freter model largely carry over. In a computational simulation study, we find that t...

in this paper, a reaction system consisting of two parallel, non-isothermal autocatalytic reactions in a continuous stirred tank reactor (cstr) has been considered. reactor chaotic behavior is possible for certain values of system parameters. two types of controllers are designed and compared in order to control both the reactor temperature and the product concentration. the first controller is...

A nonlinear predictive controller is presented in the paper. The greatest advantage of predictive functional control (PFC) is very fast and easy calculation of control variable. Combined with the Takagi-Sugeno (TS) fuzzy model, the PFC becomes nonlinear and is called fuzzy PFC (FPFC). The controller was evaluated by simulation on the well-known process, the continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTR...