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TY - JOUR
T1 - Wiener-neural identification and predictive control of a more realistic plug-flow tubular reactor
AU - Arefi, Mohammad M.
AU - Montazeri, A.
AU - Poshtan, J.
AU - Jahed-Motlagh, M. R.
PY - 2008/5/1
Y1 - 2008/5/1
N2 - Some chemical plants such as plug-flow tubular reactors have highly nonlinear behavior. Such processes demand a powerful identification method such as a neural-networks-based Wiener model. In this paper, a plug-flow reactor is simulated in a rather realistic environment by HYSYS, and the obtained data is in connection with MATLAB for identification and control purpose. The process is identified with NN-based Wiener identification method, and two linear and nonlinear model predictive controllers are applied with the ability of rejecting slowly varying unmeasured disturbances. The results are also compared with a common PI controller for temperature control of tubular reactor. Simulation results show that the obtained Wiener model has a good capability to predict the step response of the process. Parameters of both linear and nonlinear model predictive controllers are tuned and the best-obtained results are compared. For this purpose, different operating points are selected to have a wide range of operation for the nonlinear process. It is shown that the nonlinear controller has the fastest damped response in comparison with the other two controllers.
AB - Some chemical plants such as plug-flow tubular reactors have highly nonlinear behavior. Such processes demand a powerful identification method such as a neural-networks-based Wiener model. In this paper, a plug-flow reactor is simulated in a rather realistic environment by HYSYS, and the obtained data is in connection with MATLAB for identification and control purpose. The process is identified with NN-based Wiener identification method, and two linear and nonlinear model predictive controllers are applied with the ability of rejecting slowly varying unmeasured disturbances. The results are also compared with a common PI controller for temperature control of tubular reactor. Simulation results show that the obtained Wiener model has a good capability to predict the step response of the process. Parameters of both linear and nonlinear model predictive controllers are tuned and the best-obtained results are compared. For this purpose, different operating points are selected to have a wide range of operation for the nonlinear process. It is shown that the nonlinear controller has the fastest damped response in comparison with the other two controllers.
KW - SYSTEMS
KW - STATE
KW - HYSYS simulator
KW - Wiener-neural identification
KW - nonlinear model predictive control (NMPC)
KW - INTERNAL MODEL CONTROL
KW - tubular reactor
KW - NETWORKS
U2 - 10.1016/j.cej.2007.05.044
DO - 10.1016/j.cej.2007.05.044
M3 - Journal article
VL - 138
SP - 274
EP - 282
JO - Chemical Engineering Journal
JF - Chemical Engineering Journal
SN - 1385-8947
IS - 1-3
ER -