A nonlinear approach to the problem of composition control in a copolymerization reactor

Author

Padilla, Salvador ; Alvarez, Jesús ; López, Teresa

Author_Institution

Univ. Autonoma Metropolitana, Mexico City, Mexico

Volume

5

fYear

1995

fDate

21-23 Jun 1995

Firstpage

3178

Abstract

The control of copolymer composition is an important industrial problem, which has direct implications in quality attributes of the product, production rate, and the way the process and its equipment are designed and operated. With nonlinear control tools and with outputs having relative degree one (which is an important robustness-oriented specification) it is established that the election of the composition of the unreacted most reactive monomer and the average composition of the converted least reactive monomer leads to the fastest copolymer composition response

Keywords

MIMO systems; chemical industry; chemical variables control; closed loop systems; nonlinear control systems; polymerisation; process control; MIMO systems; closed loop systems; composition control; copolymer composition; copolymerization reactor; nonlinear control; process control; production rate; reactive monomer; Inductors; Industrial control; Kinetic theory; Linear feedback control systems; Nominations and elections; Nonlinear control systems; Open loop systems; Polymers; State feedback; Temperature dependence;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

American Control Conference, Proceedings of the 1995

Conference_Location

Seattle, WA

Print_ISBN

0-7803-2445-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ACC.1995.532102

Filename

532102