Simulation and Control of a Biodiesel Production Reactor

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Bostaki, Reyhaneh | 2020

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Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
Language: Farsi
Document No: 52934 (06)
University: Sharif University of Technology
Department: Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
Advisor(s): Shahrokhi, Mohammad
Abstract:
The diesel fuel produced from vegetable oils or animal fats is called biodoesel. Biodiesel has desired fuel property as an alternative for diesel engines. Moreover, It is biodegerable, non-toxic, environmental friendly and has lesser undesirable exhaust. Due to biodiesel advantages, production of biodiesel and control of the biodiesel production reactor is noteworthy. The objective of this work is to control the mass fraction of the produced ester and the reactor temperature by manipulating methanol feed flow rate and the heat duty of the reactor. For this purpose, an adaptive multivariable generalized model predictive control (GPC) has been applied to the reactor. The results indicate that the controller has a good performance in set point tracking, load rejection and in case of model mismatch
Keywords:
Adaptive Control ; Biodiesel Production ; Generalized Predictive Control ; Simulation ; Control ; Diesel Fuel

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