Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun. 1984, 49, 2566-2578
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19842566

Intensification of cooling in a batch reactor with an exothermic reaction by nonisothermal control in stable pseudostationary states

Josef Horák, Petr Beránek and Dagmar Maršálková

Department of Organic Technology, Prague Institute of Chemical Technology, 166 28 Prague 6

Abstract

An algorithm is set up and tested for the temperature control of a batch reactor consisting in jump changes in the inlet temperature of entering coolant. This temperature is so chosen that its difference from the temperature of the reaction mixture is near the highest difference at which the stable pseudostationary state of the system still exists. For the prediction of the new coolant inlet temperature, a zero-order reaction model is used with an adaptive parameter estimated from the experimentally established value of the maximum of the reaction mixture overheating at the previous coolant temperature.