State space formulation of ammonia reactor dynamics

Patnaik, LM and Viswanadham, N and Sarma, IG (1980) State space formulation of ammonia reactor dynamics. In: Computers & Chemical Engineering, 4 (4). pp. 215-222.

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Abstract

The specific objective of this paper is to develop a state space model of a tubular ammonia reactor which is the heart of an ammonia plant in a fertiliser complex. A ninth order model with three control inputs and two disturbance inputs is generated from the nonlinear distributed model using linearization and lumping approximations. The lumped model is chosen such that the steady state temperature at the exit of the catalyst bed computed from the simplified state space model is close enough to the one computed from the nonlinear steady state model. The model developed in this paper is very useful for the design of continuous/discrete versions of single variable/multivariable control algorithms.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Computers & Chemical Engineering
Publisher:	Elsevier Science Ltd.
Additional Information:	Copyright of this article belongs to Elsevier Science.
Department/Centre:	Division of Electrical Sciences > Computer Science & Automation
Date Deposited:	07 Feb 2010 10:55
Last Modified:	19 Sep 2010 05:32
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/20256

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