ESTIMATION AND LOCALIZATION OF MAXIMUM TEMPERATURE IN A TUBULAR CHEMICAL REACTOR BY LUENBERGER STATE OBSERVER

Abstract

This study deals with an observer built for distributed parameter systems described by nonlinear representations. This observer was applied to a tubular chemical reactor in order to estimate the maximum temperature of the reactant mixture and its position in stationary and transient regimes. This estimation uses a Luenberger observer, while MacCormack's numerical method was used for resolution of the partial differential equations. Furthermore, to take into account the nonlinearity of the system, the gain of this estimator was proposed as a function of the position along the chemical reactor. This observer requires the values of both concentration and temperature at the inlet but only of temperature at the outlet. The convergence and robustness of this estimator were experimentally tested with initialization and modeling errors.

Keywords:

• Luenberger observer
• Maximum temperature estimation
• Safety
• Tubular reactor

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