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Parul Arora ¹, Alok Gupta ¹

Affiliations
1 Chemical Engineering Department, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur (Rajasthan), IN

Abstract

Two Control strategies are developed to control the molecular weight in emulsion polymerization by manipulating flow-rates of water stream of jacket in first case study and the power of heater in another study. The control strategies were validated with experimental data of emulsion polymerization using Methyl methacrylate as monomer. PID controller is used to control the temperature of the reactor in both the case studies.

Keywords

PID, Molecular Weight, Heat Load, Manipulative Variable.

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Parul Arora ¹, Alok Gupta ¹

Affiliations
1 Chemical Engineering Department, Malaviya National Institute of Technology, Jaipur (Rajasthan), IN

Abstract

This paper describes the PID control of a batch polymerization reactor concluding after comparison of two different mode of control. The main objective of any control system is to attain target value within minimum time. To achieve this goal we compared split range control with controller using heat load as manipulative variable. Both provide good control but after study of performance index we found PID controller with heat load as manipulative variable performs better than split range controller.

Keywords

Control Particle Size Distribution, PID, Split Range, Heat Load.

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