Shettigar J Prajwal, Lochan Kshetrimayum, Jeppu Gautham, Palanki Srinivas, Indiran Thirunavukkarasu
Department of Mechatronics Engineering, Department of Chemical Engineering, Department of Instrumentation and Control Engineering, Manipal Institute of Technology, Manipal Academy of Higher Education, Manipal 576104, India.
Department of Chemical and Biomedical Engineering, West Virginia University, Morgantown, West Virginia 26506, United States.
ACS Omega. 2021 Aug 26;6(35):22857-22865. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.1c03386. eCollection 2021 Sep 7.
In this work, a computationally efficient nonlinear model-based control (NMBC) strategy is developed for a trajectory-tracking problem in an acrylamide polymerization batch reactor. The performance of NMBC is compared with that of nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC). To estimate the reaction states, a nonlinear state estimator, an unscented Kalman filter (UKF), is employed. Both algorithms are implemented experimentally to track a time-varying temperature profile for an acrylamide polymerization reaction in a lab-scale polymerization reactor. It is shown that in the presence of state estimators the NMBC performs significantly better than the NMPC algorithm in real time for the batch reactor control problem.
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