Multiloop control of a polymerization reactor

✍ Scribed by P. R. Prasad; P. B. Deshpande; K. M. Kwalik; F. J. Schork; K. W. Leffew

• Book ID: 104522680
• Publisher: Society for Plastic Engineers
• Year: 1990
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 318 KB
• Volume: 30
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0032-3888
• DOI: 10.1002/pen.760300606

✦ Synopsis

Abstract

Chawla, et al. (2) recently described a new SISO control algorithm called the Conservative Model Based Control (CMBC). In this paper, we assess the feasibility of implementing CMBC as a multiloop controller on a simulated reactor used for the polymerization of methyl methacrylate. Both servo and regulatory behavior of the controller are studied. Despite the non‐linearities and coupling between the two controlled variables, the easy‐to‐implement CMBC algorithm has been shown to give good control performance.