Title: Multimodel reference model control: an experimental validation on a chemical reactor

Authors: Mansoura Elkhalil, Majda Ltaief, Ridha Ben Abdennour, Mohammed M'Saad

Addresses: Unite de Recherche Commande Numerique des Procedes Industriels (UCONPRI), Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs de Gabees, 6029 Gabes, Tunisia. ' Unite de Recherche Commande Numerique des Procedes Industriels (UCONPRI), Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs de Gabees, 6029 Gabes, Tunisia. ' Unite de Recherche Commande Numerique des Procedes Industriels (UCONPRI), Ecole Nationale d'Ingenieurs de Gabees, 6029 Gabes, Tunisia. ' Equipe Automatique du GREYC (UMR 6072), ENSICAEN 6 Boulevard Marechal Juin – 14050 Caen, France

Abstract: The temperature control in chemical reactors has been shown to be of fundamental importance from product quality and process reproducibility points of view. This paper presents an experimental evaluation of multimodel approach involving a batch chemical reactor pilot. Two design features are worth to be mentioned. Firstly, an appropriate system identification approach is used to elaborate a family of control models describing the input-output behaviour of the reactor over its full operating range. Secondly, the control design is performed using a suitable fusion of robust model reference controllers. The underlying model reference control is particularly motivated by the required tracking performances.

Keywords: temperature control; chemical reactors; experimental validation; multimodel approach; multimodel reference model control.

DOI: 10.1504/IJMIC.2010.033210

International Journal of Modelling, Identification and Control, 2010 Vol.9 No.4, pp.350 - 358

Published online: 13 May 2010 *

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