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Comparative study of Time Optimal Controller with PID Controller for a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor

Ayush Sharma *, Miroslav Fikar, Monika Bakošová

Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology in Bratislava, 81237 Bratislava, Slovakia

E-mail: * ayush.sharma@stuba.sk

Abstract: Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR) is the productive part in different chemical and process industries, and hence there is a need to control this process at desired optimum conditions of temperature and concentration. This paper deals with modelling and constrained control of a CSTR that minimises the processing time. Modelling consisted in performing the mass and heat balances of the CSTR system. Different controllers (time optimal, PID) were then applied to this non-linear system and compared within the boundaries of the control input and states. A theoretical case study was solved numerically using the orthogonal collocations method and simulations, resulting in a comparison of different controllers.

Keywords: CSTR, mathematical modelling, constrained optimisation, PID control, time optimal control

Full paper in Portable Document Format: acs_0204.pdf

Acta Chimica Slovaca, Vol. 8, No. 1, 2015, pp. 27—33, DOI: 10.1515/acs-2015-0006