Desenvolvimento de modelos estruturados alternativos para o processo de produção de etanol

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2001

RESUMO

Compared with growing studies of microorganism populations, few improvements on the development of structured models for product formation have appeared. The objective of the presenting work is the development of altemative dynamic structured models adapted from structured growth models for the ethanol production by fermentation accomplished on a high productivity tower bioreactor with immobilized cells. The methodology of the work involved structured models of Sacharomyces cerevisae growth that include complex kinetic for the respiratory and glicolitic metabolic pathways. In this procedure it was applyed the method of Plackett and Burman, possibiliting to analyze a large number of parameters and to identify those that may be more important. The partial differential equations describing the inside particle and the bioreactor lenght phenomena were solved by orthogonal collocation method and the resulting system of differential ordinary equations was integrated, in respect to time, through lsodar subroutine. The simulated results was compared with experimental data, possibiliting to choose the most appropriate structured kinetic. Reduction techniques were applied in the particle direction and the reduced model was simulated under disturbances in the inlet variables with open loop to define the control point and manipulated variable. Because the slow dynamic, it was necessary to establish through experimental planning, a relationship among the manipulated variable, entrance substrate concentration and the control objective (feedforward model). The controller design involved in a SISO form, the classic (PID), advanced predictive (DMC) and predictive adaptive (SIDMC) control algorithms evaluated isolated and coupled to the feedforward model obtained with statistical procedures. In conclusion, considering the cell as an only component, it is not enough to describe the metabolism dynamics mainly in cultures that suffer drastic changes in the operational conditions. Results showed that the Rotboll adapted was superior, mainly as in the representation of the cell behaviour. It was compared the results obtained with the reduced models for different reduction techniques front to the reduced ones and experimental data, verifying the possibility of using them without loosing information of the processo The application of reduction techniques was useful in obtaining an useful structured model for applications in simulation and control. The study of control showed that an early action relating the manipulated variable and the set-point coupled to control feedback algorithms is the best form of stabilizing quickly the processo

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controle de processo simulação (computadores digitais) fermentação modelos matematicos engenharia quimica planejamento experimental

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