<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> This work deals with the design and the application of a robust control to a chemical reactor. The reactor is exothermic one. There are two parameters with only approximately known values in the reactor. These parameters are the reaction enthalpies. Because of the presence of uncertainty, the robust output feedback is designed. Two robust controllers are designed, the first one is based on the small gain theorem and the second one uses the H2/H∞ control techniques. The presented experimental results confirm applicability of mentioned approaches to safe control of nonlinear processes.</abstract>

This work deals with the design and the application of a robust control to a chemical reactor. The reactor is exothermic one. There are two parameters with only approximately known values in the reactor. These parameters are the reaction enthalpies. Because of the presence of uncertainty, the robust output feedback is designed. Two robust controllers are designed, the first one is based on the small gain theorem and the second one uses the H2/H∞ control techniques. The presented experimental results confirm applicability of mentioned approaches to safe control of nonlinear processes.

Robust control of a chemical reactor with uncertainties

Institute of Information Engineering, Automation and Mathematics, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, Radlinského 9, 812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia

Acta Chimica Slovaca

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This work deals with the design and the application of a robust control to a chemical reactor. The reactor is exothermic one. There are two parameters with...

Robust control of a chemical reactor with uncertainties

Published Online: Nov 23, 2013

Page range: 194 - 201

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acs-2013-0031

Keywords
exothermic chemical reactor, robust control, small gain theorem, H2/H∞ control

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Robust control of a chemical reactor with uncertainties

Published Online: Nov 23, 2013

Page range: 194 - 201

DOI: https://doi.org/10.2478/acs-2013-0031

Keywordsexothermic chemical reactor, robust control, small gain theorem, H2/H∞ control

This content is open access.

Keywords
exothermic chemical reactor, robust control, small gain theorem, H2/H∞ control