Optimal Control of a Continuous Stirred-Tank Reactor

Requires a Wolfram Notebook System
Interact on desktop, mobile and cloud with the free Wolfram Player or other Wolfram Language products.
Aris and Amundson [1–3] originally analyzed the design of a continuous stirred-tank reactor (CSTR) with a first-order, irreversible exothermic reaction. The reactor is controlled by varying the flow of a cooling fluid through a coil inside the reactor. The state equations for the CSTR are given by
[more]
Contributed by: Housam Binous and Ahmed Bellagi (January 2016)
(King Fahd University of Petroleum & Minerals, KSA; University of Monastir, Tunisia)
Open content licensed under CC BY-NC-SA
Snapshots
Details
References
[1] R. Aris and N. R. Amundson, "An Analysis of Chemical Reactor Stability and Control—I: The Possibility of Local Control, with Perfect or Imperfect Control Mechanisms," Chemical Engineering Science, 7(3), 1958 pp. 121–131. doi:10.1016/0009-2509(58)80019-6.
[2] R. Aris and N. R. Amundson, "An Analysis of Chemical Reactor Stability and Control—II: The Evolution of Proportional Control", Chemical Engineering Science, 7(3), 1958 pp. 132–147. doi:10.1016/0009-2509(58)80020-2.
[3] R. Aris and N. R. Amundson, "An Analysis of Chemical Reactor Stability and Control—III: The Principles of Programming Reactor Calculations. Some Extensions", Chemical Engineering Science, 7(3), 1958 pp. 148–155. doi:10.1016/0009-2509(58)80021-4.
[4] R. Luus and L. Lapidus, "The Control of Nonlinear Systems. Part II: Convergence by Combined First and Second Variations," AIChE Journal, 13(1), 1967 pp. 108–113. doi:10.1002/aic.690130120.
[5] D. E. Kirk, Optimal Control Theory: An Introduction, Mineola, NY: Dover Publications, 2004.
Permanent Citation