Modelling, control, and optimisation of membrane processes

This work deals with membrane processes that stand for an emerging technology in chemical and bioprocess industry used both in production and down-stream processing. Membrane processes receive growing attention mainly due to reduced energy demands and higher efficiency of the achieved separation or processing goals. These systems, however, did not receive much attention from process optimization community and that is why they provide many opportunities for development of optimal operation design. Membrane processes, their common features, and principles will be discussed in details. Mathematical models suitable for modelling, simulation, and control will derived. The existing industrial operation and control will be explained. Theory of automatic control will be employed to suggest improvements over the existing state of control and to propose new control strategies. Selected case studies will demonstrate the advantages of the proposed approach.