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Optimal control of a chemical reactor

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  17 February 2009

K. H. Wong  and
N. Lock
K. H. Wong
Affiliation:
Dept of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
N. Lock
Affiliation:
Dept of Computational and Applied Mathematics, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
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Abstract

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A chemical reactor problem is considered governed by partial differential equations. We wish to control the input temperature and the input oxygen concentration so that the actual output temperature can be as close to the desired output temperature as possible. By linearizing the differential equations around a nominal equation and then applying a finite-element Galerkin Scheme to the resulting system, the original problem can be converted into a sequence of linearly-constrained quadratic programming problems.

Type
Research Article
Information
The ANZIAM Journal , Volume 39 , Issue 1 , July 1997 , pp. 61 - 76
Copyright
Copyright © Australian Mathematical Society 1997

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