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Multiloop control of a polymerization reactor
Author(s) -
Prasad P. R.,
Deshpande P. B.,
Kwalik K. M.,
Schork F. J.,
Leffew K. W.
Publication year - 1990
Publication title -
polymer engineering and science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.503
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1548-2634
pISSN - 0032-3888
DOI - 10.1002/pen.760300606
Subject(s) - controller (irrigation) , control theory (sociology) , servo , polymerization , coupling (piping) , control (management) , materials science , methyl methacrylate , computer science , control engineering , engineering , polymer , composite material , artificial intelligence , agronomy , biology
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.