Reactor operation and control

Four types of reactors will be considered here the batch (BR), the semibatch (SBR), the plug flow (PFR), and the continuous stirred tank (CSTR). The concept of a batch reactor will be well-known to the reader. A semibatch reactor is one in which at least one reaction component is added over time. This may be a very small volume of material such as a catalyst or initiator, or the feed may comprise a large portion of the final volume of the reactor contents, as in the case of the semibatch addition of a comonomer. 

The other common continuous polymerization reactor is the continuous stirred tank reactor. In this configuration, reactants are continuously pumped into a reactor while product is continuously removed. Since the reactor is assumed to be well mixed, all material within the reactor is at the same 

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The model has been used to analyze and improve performance for a range of emulsion processes. The substantial level of details (e.g., kinetics, PSD, MWD) that can be incorporated into reactor operation and control algorithms. ... 

REACTOR OPERATION AND CONTROL Table 5.2 Comparison of baseline and adaptive predictive control... 

F. J. ScHORK, Reactor operation and control , in Polymer Reaction Engineering, C. McGreavy (Editor), Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 1993. 

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