Modeling and Control of a Continuous Stirred Tank Reactor Based on a Mixed Logical Dynamical Model1

A novel control strategy for a continuous stirred tank reactor (CSTR) system, which has the typical characteristic of strongly pronounced nonlinearity, multiple operating points, and a wide operating range, is initiated from the point of hybrid systems. The proposed scheme makes full use of the modeling power of mixed logical dynamical (MLD) systems to describe the highly nonlinear dynamics and multiple operating points in a unified framework as a hybrid system, and takes advantage of the good control quality of model predictive control (MPC) to design a controller. Thus, this approach avoids oscillation during switching between sub-systems, helps to relieve shaking in transition, and augments the stability robustness of the whole system, and finally achieves optimal (i.e. fast and smooth) transition between operating points. The simulation results demonstrate that the presented approach has a satisfactory performance.