December 2002
Intermediate to advanced
800 pages
18h 7m
English
Design an IMC-based PID controller to control the bioreactor at equilibrium point 3—the stable nontrivial point. The steady state (also use this as the initial condition for your simulations) is
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At this operating point, the state space model is

Use MATLAB to find that the eigenvalues are –0.3 and –2.2640 hr-1, so the system is stable and the IMC-based PID method for stable systems can be used (see Table 9-1). Find the transfer function relating the dilution rate to the biomass concentration and use this ...
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