Adaptive control of isothermal reactor with complex reaction

Abstract

The role and importance of the simulation rises with the increasing speed of computers and simulation tools provided nowadays. Safety and less money and time demands gives a computer simulation big advantage over the experiments on a real system or its model. The paper deals with simulation of an adaptive control on a nonlinear system represented by a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR). This system is mathematically described by a set of Ordinary Differential Equations (ODE) which are first solved numerically to obtain steady-state and dynamic behaviour of the system. The adaptive control is based on the recursive identification of an External Linear Model (ELM) as a representation of the originally nonlinear system. The polynomial approach together with the pole-placement method gives sufficient control results although the system has negative control properties.