OPTIMAL OPEN-LOOP RECIPE GENERATION FOR PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION CONTROL IN SEMI-BATCH EMULSION POLYMERISATION

N. Bianco and C. D. Immanuel
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N. Bianco: Department of Chemical Engineering, Centre for Process System Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK
C. D. Immanuel: Department of Chemical Engineering, Centre for Process System Engineering, Imperial College London, London SW7 2AZ, UK

Chapter 11 in Computer Aided Methods in Optimal Design and Operations, 2006, pp 99-108 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractEmulsion polymerisation is widely used in industry to produce a large range of products. Many important properties of the polymer products are strongly influenced by the particle size distribution (PSD) of the latex. PSD is driven by three major phenomena: particle nucleation, growth and coagulation, each of which strongly interact with each other, present irreversible traits and have widely different time constants, thereby rendering PSD control challenging. In this study a population balance model is used to develop feed policy to attain target PSD. A multi-objective optimisation strategy that targets the individual phenomena of nucleation, growth and coagulation is adopted.

Keywords: Optimization; Optimal Design; Global Optimization; Optimal Control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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