Discrepancy based control of systems of population balances

This contribution is concerned with control of systems of population balances, which are frequently used for modeling of particulate processes like granulation or crystallization. Using the model of a pellet coating processes it will be shown that discrepancy based control can be successfully applied for control of systems of population balances. Here, the main idea is to choose a system output being a generalized measure for the distance between the particle size distribution and its desired steady state, which allows a direct Lyapunov design.