Optimum temperature profiles in tubular reactors: an exploration of some difficulties in the use of Pontryagin's Maximum Principle

✍ Scribed by I. Coward; R. Jackson

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 1965
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 878 KB
• Volume: 20
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0009-2509
• DOI: 10.1016/0009-2509(65)80088-4

✦ Synopsis

By considering the well known problem of determining optimum temperature profiles for the successive first order reactions 1 B AiBiC carried out in a tubular reactor it is shown that the application of Pontryagin's Maximum Principle is not straightforward, even in a case as simple as this. In particular, it is stressed that the Maximum Principle provides necessary but not sufficient conditions for optimum operation, and that the distinction is-of more than academic importance.