Abstract
This paper addresses the problem of suppressing the magnitude of hot spots in plug flow reactors by manipulating the jacket coolant temperature. A nonlinear control law is derived which guarantees that the hot spot temperature remains below a pre-specified bound for all times after an initial transient, under relatively mild assumptions on the inlet conditions. The performance and robustness of the derived control law are evaluated for the case of a first-order irreversible exothermic reaction.,
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1087-1094 |
| Number of pages | 8 |
| Journal | Computers and Chemical Engineering |
| Volume | 26 |
| Issue number | 7-8 |
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| State | Published - Aug 15 2002 |
Bibliographical note
Funding Information:Partial financial support for this work by the National Science Foundation, grant NSF/CTS-9624725, is gratefully acknowledged.
Keywords
- Distributed parameter systems
- Hot spots
- Nonlinear control
- Plug flow reactors