The Fault Tolerant Control Design of an Intensified Heat-Exchanger/Reactor Using a Two-Layer, Multiple-Model Structure

The heat-exchanger/reactor (HEX reactor) is a kind of plug-flow chemical reactor which combines high heat transfer ability with good chemical performances. It was designed under the popular trend of process intensification in chemical engineering. Previous studies have investigated its characteristi...

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Published in:Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) Switzerland), 2020-08, Vol.20 (17), p.4888
Main Authors: He, Menglin, Li, Zetao, Dahhou, Boutaib, Cabassud, Michel
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automatic Control Engineering
Chemical engineering
Chemical reactions
Computer Science
Computer simulation
Control systems design
Controllers
Design
Fault detection
Fault diagnosis
Fault tolerance
fault tolerant control
Heat
heat-exchanger/reactor
Identification
Kalman filters
multiple model
Plug flow chemical reactors
Process intensification
Reactors
System identification
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Summary:The heat-exchanger/reactor (HEX reactor) is a kind of plug-flow chemical reactor which combines high heat transfer ability with good chemical performances. It was designed under the popular trend of process intensification in chemical engineering. Previous studies have investigated its characteristics and developed its nominal model. This paper is concerned with its fault tolerant control (FTC) applications. To avoid the difficulties and nonlinearities of this HEX reactor under chemical reactions, a two-layer, multiple-model structure is proposed for designing the FTC scheme. The first layer focuses on representing the nonlinear system with a bank of local linear models while the second layer uses model banks for approaching faulty situations. Model banks are achieved by system identification, and the corresponding controller banks are designed using model predictive control (MPC). The unscented Kalman filter (UKF) is introduced to estimate the states and form the fault detection and isolation (FDI) section. Finally, the FTC simulation and validation results are presented. The idea of a two-layer, multiple-model structure presents a general framework for FTC design of complex and highly nonlinear systems, such as the HEX reactor, whose mathematical model has been created. It implements the design process in an unusual way and is also worth trying on other cases.
ISSN:1424-8220
1424-8220
DOI:10.3390/s20174888