Application of the cascade control method for a continuous stirred tank reactor

• Main Authors: Dostál, Petr, Bobál, Vladimír, Vojtěšek, Jiří, Chramcov, Bronislav
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: North Atlantic University Union (NAUN) 2014
• Subjects: Adaptive control; Cascade control; Continuous stirred tank reactor; Control simulation; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://publikace.k.utb.cz/handle/10563/1005665

The paper presents the control design of a continuous stirred tank reactor based on a combination of the cascade control and the adaptive control methologies. The control system consists of the primary a secondary control loops. The primary controlled output of the reactor is a concentration of the main reaction product, and, the secondary output is the reactant temperataure. The design of the nonlinear P-controller in the primary control loop is based on a steady-state analysis of the reactor. The controller in the secondary control-loop is an adaptive controller. The paper contains a larger number of simulations documenting suitability of the proposed method. © 2014 North Atlantic University Union. All rights reserved.