Publication Date:
2019-06-27
Description:
The optimal startup policy of a jacketed tubular reactor, in which a first-order, reversible, exothermic reaction takes place, is presented. A distributed maximum principle is presented for determining weak necessary conditions for optimality of a diffusional distributed parameter system. A numerical technique is developed for practical implementation of the distributed maximum principle. This involves the sequential solution of the state and adjoint equations, in conjunction with a functional gradient technique for iteratively improving the control function.
Keywords:
THERMODYNAMICS AND COMBUSTION
Type:
AIChE Journal; 17; Nov. 197
Format:
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