Acta Chimica Slovaca (ACS) publishes papers on fundamental and applied aspects of chemistry, biochemistry, chemical technology, chemical engineering and process control, biotechnology and food technology. Welcome are also topics which include chemical aspects of materials, physical chemistry and chemical physics, analytical chemistry, macromolecular chemistry and biomedical engineering.

Robust Control of Chemical Reactors

Monika Bakošová *, Dalibor Puna, Anna Vasičkaninová

Institute of Information Engineering, Automation and Mathematics, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, SUT, Radlinského 9, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia

E-mail: * monika.bakosova@stuba.sk

Abstract: The possibility to use robust PI controllers for stabilization of continuous stirred tank reactors is discussed in this paper. Considered reactors are exothermic ones with multiple steady states and uncertain parameters. A computationally simple non-iterative algorithm is used for the robust static output feedback PI controller design. The design procedure guarantees with sufficient conditions the robust quadratic stability and the guaranteed cost. Designed robust PI controllers are able to stabilize the reactors with uncertainty in their unstable steady states.

Keywords: chemical reactor, PI controller, robust control, static output feedback

Full paper in Portable Document Format: acs_0002.pdf

Acta Chimica Slovaca, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2008, pp. 12—23