Differential control

A way to speed up a system is to add a type of differential control. Here the signal depends on the rate of change of CI-CO like  

At steady state CC=0, so this system can not control the steady state. Alternatively, it can give a large signal, if the wanted value (Cl) suddenly changes. In this way the system can to some degree overcome the sloppiness created by the integral system or other slow changes in the system. A minus is that this kind of control can create instabilities and amplify noise, so it can not stand alone. 

An example of a strong differential regulation is seen in the control of eye movements [7]. When the head is suddenly turned, the acceleration is sensed by the vestibular apparatus in the inner ear. Among others, this signal controls the movements of the eyes, so when the turning is completed, the sight is rapidly adjusted to the new position. 

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To protect the reactor and the regenerator against a flow reversal, pressure differential controllers are used to monitor and control the differential pressures across the slide valves. If the differential pressure falls below a minimum set-point, the pressure differential controller (PDIC) overrides the process controller and closes the valve. Only after the PDIC is satisfied will the control of the slide valve return to the process. 

Simpson D R, Weston G E, Turner J A, Jennings P and Nicholson P (2001), Differential control of head blight pathogens of wheat by fungicides and consequences for mycotoxin contamination of grain , Europ. J. Plant Pathol., 107, 421-431. 

The differentiator provides an output that is directly related to the rate of change of the input and a constant that specifies the function of differentiation. The derivative constant is expressed in units of seconds and defines the differential controller output. 

In developing the enthalpy balance for a PFR, we consider only steady-state operation, so that the rate of accumulation vanishes. The rates of input and output of enthalpy by (1) flow, (2) heat transfer, and (3) reaction may be developed based on the differential control volume dV in Figure 15.3 ... 

The volume of the recycle PFR may be obtained by a material balance for A around the differential control volume dV. Equating molar flow input and output, we obtain... 

Consider a material balance for A around the differential control volume shown in... 

Let us consider a case of steady evaporation. We will assume a one-dimensional transport of heat in the liquid whose bulk temperature is maintained at the atmospheric temperature, 7 X. This would apply to a deep pool of liquid with no edge or container effects. The process is shown in Figure 6.9. We select a differential control volume between x and x + dx, moving with a surface velocity (—(dxo/df) i). Our coordinate system is selected with respect to the moving, regressing, evaporating liquid surface. Although the control volume moves, the liquid velocity is zero, with respect to a stationary observer, since no circulation is considered in the contained liquid. 

Since diffusional effects are most important, we wish to emphasize these processes in the gas phase. For the control volume selected in Figure 9.7, the bold assumption is made that transport processes across the lateral faces in the x direction do not change - or change very slowly. Thus we only consider changes in the y direction. This approximation is known as the stagnant layer model since the direct effect of the main flow velocity (it) is not expressed. A differential control volume Ay x Ax x unity is selected. 

The conservation of energy for the differential control volume in Figure 10.5 becomes, following Equation (10.6),... 

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Consider the thermal wave given in Fig. 4.4. If a differential control volume is taken within this one-dimensional wave and the variations as given in the figure are in the x direction, then the thermal and mass balances are as shown in Fig. 4.5. In Fig. 4.5, a is the mass of reactant per cubic centimeter, Cj is the rate of reaction, Q is the heat of reaction per unit mass, and p is the total density. Note that alp is the mass fraction of reactant a. Since the problem is a steady one, there is no accumulation of species or heat with respect to time, and the balance of the energy terms and the species terms must each be equal to zero. 

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The term on the left side of the equation is the accumulation term, which accounts for the change in the total amount of species iheld in phase /c within a differential control volume. This term is assumed to be zero for all of the sandwich models discussed in this section because they are at steady state. The first term on the right side of the equation keeps track of the material that enters or leaves the control volume by mass transport. The remaining three terms account for material that is gained or lost due to chemical reactions. The first summation includes all electron-transfer reactions that occur at the interface between phase k and the electronically conducting phase (denoted as phase 1). The second summation accounts for all other interfacial reactions that do not include electron transfer, and the final term accounts for homogeneous reactions in phase k. 

In higher organisms, metabolic and other processes (growth, differentiation, control of the internal environment) are controlled by hormones (see pp. 370ff)... 

The most widespread type of controller is the PID controller. Here P stands for proportional, I for integral and D for differential control function. In the following some of the properties of this controller are described in detail. Information on the system behavior is gained through a step response to a control fault in certain controller settings. 

Net Forces on a Differential Control Volume Based on a differential control volume (i.e vanishingly small dimensions in each of three spatial coordinates), we write the forces on each of the six faces of the control volume. The forces are presumed to be smooth, continuous, differentiable, functions of the spatial coordinates. Therefore the spatial variations across the control volume in each coordinate direction may be represented as a first-order Taylor-series expansion. When the net force is determined on the differential control volume, each term will be the product a factor that is a function of the velocity field and a factor that is the volume of the differential control volume 8 V. 

Balance Equations on a Differential Control Volume When the net forces are substituted into Eq. 2.14, the 8 V cancels from each term, leaving a differential equation. As a very brief illustration, a one-dimensional momentum equation in cartesian coordinates is written as... 

If the control volume is a vanishingly small one, meaning a differential control volume, then the integrand in Eq. 2.30 can be viewed as constant within the volume. Hence, carrying out the the integral is rather simple, yielding... 

Forces or stresses are measurable on actual solid surfaces. We are equally interested, if not more interested, in virtual surfaces interior to the flow field that are used to help understand and quantify the intricacies of the flow. In particular, the surfaces of differential control volumes are critical in the derivation of the conservation equations. 

While the stress vector may be determined on any arbitrary surface, we are most often concerned with the stresses that act on the six surfaces of a differential control volume. On each surface there are normal and shearing stresses, as indicated in Fig. 2.13. The stress tensor... 

The finite control-volume dimensions as illustrated in Fig. 2.13 may be a potential source of confusion. While the stress tensor represents the stress state at a point, it is only when the differential control volume is shrunk to vanishingly small dimensions that it represents a point. Nevertheless, the control volume is central to our understanding of how the stress acts on the fluid and in establishing sign conventions for the stress state. For example, consider the normal stress xrr, which can be seen on the r + dr face in the left-hand panel and on the r face in the right-hand panel. Both are labeled rrr, although their values are only equal when the control volume has shrunk to a point. Since the stress state varies continuously and smoothly throughout the flow, the stress state is in fact a little different at the centers of the six control-volume faces as illustrated in Fig. 2.13 where the... 

The shear-stress convention is a bit more complicated to explain. In a differential control volume, the shear stresses act as a couple that produces a torque on the volume. The sign of the torques defines the positive directions of the shear stresses. Assume a right-handed coordinate system, here defined by (z, r, 9). The shear-stress sign convention is related to ordering of the coordinate indexes as follows a positive shear xzr produces a torque in the direction, a positive xrg produces a torque in the z direction, and a positive x z produces a torque in the r direction. Note also, for example, that a positive xrz produces a torque in the negative 6 direction. 

In Section 2.8.4 a general vector analysis is used to determine the net force exerted on a control volume by virtue of stresses acting on the control surfaces. In this section forces are considered on each face of a cylindrical differential control volume. The objective is the same as in the previous section, that is, to determine the force per unit volume on a differential control volume. Here, however, by explicitly considering a particular control volume, the intent is to make more clear the physical meaning of the result. 

Consider the two-dimensional stresses on the faces of a cartesian control volume as illustrated in Fig. 2.25. The differential control-volume dimensions are dx and dy, with the dz = 1. Assuming differential dimensions and that the stress state is continuous and differentiable, the spatial variation in the stress state can be expressed in terms of first-order Taylor series expansions. 

Take the results of the Gauss divergence theorem and evaluate the net force on the differential control volume using the divergence of the stress tensor,... 

Assuming a vanishingly small differential control volume, the integrand can be assumed to be uniform over the volume. Therefore the continuity equation can be written in differential-equation form as... 

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