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Optimal Control of a Fluid-Bed Desorption Process

E. Moncman

Department of Automation and Regulation, Slovak Technical University, Bratislava 1

Abstract: To run a fluid-bed desorption process under optimum operating conditions with respect to changing independent process parameters the steady-state optimization using a mathematical model of the process was designed. Kinetic equations of a desorption process derived from the mass and heat transfer laws depending on many parameters are not satisfactorily accurate. Rate of desorption therefore is expressed by the desorption time constant which can be determined experimentally. The basic relationships of the controlled process are derived and an example of optimization problem is presented. Adaptive control of the process is realized by a computer which determines the optimum values of actuating quantities of the controlled process.

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Chemical Papers 23 (6) 429–440 (1969)