Optimal Operation and Control of a Batch Hydrothermal Carbonization Reactor

Resumen: The problem of control and monitoring the operation of a batch hydrothermal (HTC) reactor is addressed, guarantying safe, reliable and efficient operation. The combination of chemical reactors engineering, detectability, passivity, optimality and dynamical inversion tools leads to an event-driven output feedback controller that maximizes the economic profit of the process. The scheme has: (i) an off-line nominal motion generator so that the process is carried out maintaining a compromise between economic profit, speed and effort of control, safety and tolerance against load, measurement and parametric errors, (ii) an event controller that decides the batch end time, guaranteeing the maximum economic profit per unit time, and (iii) a tracking controller that tracks the reactor’s motion along an off-line optimized motion. The proposed methodology is applied via numerical simulations of a representative example.

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Sebastián Alexander Andrade Becerra, Jesus Alvarez, Luis Alvarez-Icaza & Lisette Samarti Rios. Optimal Operation and Control of a Batch Hydrothermal Carbonization Reactor. Memorias del Congreso Nacional de Control Automático, pp. 1-6, 2020.

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Hydrothermal carbonization, batch control, optimal control, material balance control, estimators

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