Assume that you are working as a processcontrol engineer in

Assume that you are working as a process/control engineer in a chemical industry. One morning, the plant manager come to your desk and show you a design of a reactor which has just been approved by the management. The manager ask you to design controller for this reactor. As a control engineer, your first step is to develop a mathematical model of the reactor and thus to understand the process. How will you approach the development of a reasonable (best possible approximated) mathematical model?

Solution

As a controll engineer these are the following details needed for approaching the model

1) Inflow for reactor

2) Out Flow For Reactor

3) Type of Process involved

4) Material Grade to be used for reactor

5) Chemical reations to certain metals