Nonlinear model reduction of a continuous fluidized bed crystallizer

This work considers a system of a fluidized bed crystallizer and an ultrasonic attenuator, which separates an enantiomer from a liquid solution. A population balance model of the system shows autonomous oscillations over a wide range of operation conditions. Proper orthogonal decomposition is applied to obtain nonlinear reduced models of low order. An a posteriori error estimator is used to assess the quality of the reduced model during run time.