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 ...

( Asymmetric cellulose acetate membranes have been prepared and characterized in the laboratory with a view to use them in membrane bio-reactors. Enzymatic hydrolysis of sucrose has been investigated in a dead-end stirred cell type membrane bio-reactor using these membranes. Effect of different operating variables such as substrate concentration, enzyme loading, flow rate and working volume hav...

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...

This review describes the historical development and current state of metals leaching and sulfide mineral biooxidation by the minerals industries. During the past 20 years commercial processes employing microorganisms for mineral recovery have progressed from rather uncontrolled copper dump leaching to mineral oxidation and leaching in designed bioheaps for oxidation of refractory gold ores and...

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...

This experimental work concerns the multivariable nonlinear control of a pilotsize continuous polymerization reactor with generically singular characteristic matrix. The control problem is to control conversion and temperature in a continuous stirred tank reactor by manipulating two coordinated flow rates (reactor residence time) and two coordinated heat inputs. A nonlinear controller is synthe...

In the past, oxygen delignification studies were mostly performed in batch reactors, whereby the caustic and dissolved oxygen concentrations are changing during the reaction. Also the lignin content and cellulose degradation of the pulp are only established at the end of an experiment when the sample is removed from the reactor. To overcome these deficiencies, a differential reactor system (cal...

The paper deals with nonlinear control under input constraints of a non isothermal Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR) using thermodynamic concepts. More precisely, the paper presents an extension of the previous work (Hoang et al. (2012)) where the jacket temperature is used as the only control input. Constrained input control strategy is based on the observation that the chemical reactor o...

—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 ...

The capacity of Acidithiobacillus thiooxidans DMS 11478 to recover the heavy metals contained in the residue obtained from the CARON process has been evaluated. Different bioreactor configurations were studied: a two-stage batch system and two semi-continuous systems (stirred-tank reactor leaching and column leaching). In the two-stage system, 46.8% Co, 36.0% Mg, 26.3% Mn and 22.3% Ni were solu...