(1) Department of Information Engineering and Process Control, Institute of Information Engineering, Automation, and Mathematics, Faculty of Chemical and Food Technology, Slovak University of Technology, SK-812 37 Bratislava, Slovakia
Abstract:
Optimal operation policies were investigated for a batch reactor system with two different operation stages. At the end of
the first nonisothermal stage one of the reactants was added. Since that moment the reactor was operated isothermally. In
each stage behavior of the reactor was described by a set of differential equations. The maximum conversion problem was investigated
subject to various operating constraints. Dynamic optimization based on the control vector parametrization was used to find
the optimal control profile. Gradients of the resulting nonlinear programming problem were obtained by adjoint method based
on the optimal control theory.