Comparative Analysis of Performance of Different Controllers for a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor

Abstract

The main aim of this paper is to develop different control strategies for a jacketed continuous stirred tank reactor. Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor (CSTR) is one of the most important unit operations in chemical industries which exhibits highly non-linear behaviour and usually has wide operating ranges. In this work, performance of different controllers such as Proportional-integral-derivative controller (PID), Internal model controller (IMC) and model reference adaptive controller (MRAC) have been evaluated.