Computer control of holdup in a reciprocating plate extraction column Journal Articles

abstract

• AbstractThis paper describes the application of computer control to a pilot scale (15 cm diameter) Reciprocating Plate Solvent Extraction Column. The system under investigation was kerosene dispersed in water without mass transfer between the phases. The control objective was the regulation and set point tracking of the holdup of the dispersed phase.Dynamic tests showed that the column was a non‐minimum phase, dead‐time process with asymmetric, non‐linear gains and time constants.Fixed parameter controllers of increasing complexity; PID, Dahlin algorithm, and minimum variance, were compared to an adaptive controller, the self tuning regulator. These controllers were applied in feedback and combined feedback‐feedforward configurations.

authors

• Taylor, Paul Arthur
• Baird, Malcolm
• Kusuma, I

status

• published 

publication date

• August 1982

has subject area

• 0904 Chemical Engineering (FoR)
• 0914 Resources Engineering and Extractive Metallurgy (FoR)
• Chemical Engineering (Science Metrix)

published in

• Canadian Journal of Chemical Engineering  Journal

keywords

• Engineering
• Engineering, Chemical
• Science & Technology
• Technology

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

• 10.1002/cjce.5450600419

start page

• 556

end page

• 565

volume

• 60

issue

• 4