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In this work the application of a non-linear predictive controller to policondensation reactors aiming the safety, quality of the product, capacity of scale-up and productivity is studied. In batch policondensation processes, a volatile product called condensate is generated, and its removal becomes necessary in order to favor the reaction progress as a mean to obtain high conversion rates. In most of the works involving policondensation the separation is not taken into account. Therefore, a policondensation model was developed which was coupled to a distillation column in order to verify the behavior of the variables in the system through open-loop simulations. The polycondensation model was obtained from the literature (Shin et al. ,1999) and was implemented taking into account the thermal inertia between the walls of the reactor and the interactions with the distillation column. The polycondensation reaction studied here corresponds to the production of polyethylene-terephtalate (PET). In this reaction, Dimethyl Terephtalate (DMT) and Etylene Glycol (EG) generate as products ester groups and methanol (M). The reactor that was modeled corresponds to a pilot reactor installed in the Laboratory of Simulation and Processes Control. A non linear predictive control (NMPC) was implemented and tested in two free radical polymerization models (SISO and MIMO systems) and compared with PID controllers performance. The NMPC was applied to the polycondensation model and a PID controller was also applied for comparison. In this stage several closed-loop simulations and sensitivity analyses were performed. For the sensitivity analyses the NMPC controller was denominated NMPC controller with "feedback" for comparison with an NMPC with full state feedback. The studies showed that NMPC controller has a better performance than PID. NMPC with "feedback" presents a superior performance to the NMPC with full state feedback in the presence of modeling gaps. In the simulations that were performed, the NMPC with "feedback" has kept the process under control.

Aplicação de controlador preditivo não linear a um reator de policondensação.