Title: State estimation for a class of exothermic fed-batch processes

Authors: Frederic Sauvage, Martin Guay, Michel Perrier, Thierry Monge, Denis Dochain

Addresses: IMAP Unit, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Place Ste Barbe 2, Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium. ' Department of Chemical Engineering, Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario K7L 3N6, Canada. ' Departement de Genie Chimique, Ecole Polytechnique de Montreal, C.P. 6079, Succ. Centre-ville, Montreal (Quebec) H3C 3A7, Canada. ' Cray Valley, Centre de Recherche de l'Oise, Parc Alata, Verneuil-en-Halate 60550, France. ' CESAME, Universite Catholique de Louvain, Batiment Euler, 4-6 Avenue Georges Lemaitre, Louvain-la-Neuve 1348, Belgium

Abstract: This paper presents an overview of recent results of some state observers for a class of non-linear exothermic fed-batch chemical reactors. The proposed techniques deal with kinetics and heat transfer uncertainties which are frequently encountered in fed-batch processes. The presentation of the different approaches is organised by following the level of knowledge with respect to each kind of uncertainties.

Keywords: fed-batch reactors; state observers; state estimation; online calorimetry; nonlinear systems; kinetics; heat transfer; uncertainties.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIC.2008.021003

International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 2008 Vol.4 No.1, pp.89 - 99

Published online: 30 Oct 2008 *

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