Unmeasured Concentrations and Reaction Rates Estimation in CSTRs

In this paper, we focus on continuously stirred tank reactors. For such plants we present a dynamical system capable of estimating i) unmeasured concentrations exponentially fast and ii) completely unknown reaction rates exactly and in finite-time. Towards this end, this observer requires the (partial) knowledge of the mathematical model, along with the inputs and outputs to the system; furthermore, we require that the number of measured concentrations equals the number of unknown reaction rates.