Modelagem simulação e controle de um reator radial empregado na isomerização de xilenos

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DATA DE PUBLICAÇÃO

2002

RESUMO

The great commercial interest in xylenes isomerization process is due to the high aggregated value conferred to p-xylene in many industrial applications. Typical industrial adiabatic fixed-bed reactor with radial centripet flow is used in this process. During operation catalyst activity decay uccurs due carbon compounds formation and deposition, reducing reaction conversion to not-economicallevels. Reactor temperature is obtained by the feed flow heating inside an industrial box and tube furnace. The reactor dynamic model developed considers catalyst deactivation. The furnace was represented by a simplified model where time is the independent variable. The objective of this study is the development of process models for the catalitic reaction with decaing activity system and for the feed flow heating furnace system, and the implementation of an advanced control strategy for plant automatization. System Simulation results show the used models validity. They avoid qualitative preHminar evaluation of process behaviour. The process not-estationary characteristic, combined with the great operational vaariables interaction, apply for development of high performance control systems, which use advanced digital design techniques. A cascade control strategy was proposed, where primary control loop has p-xilene concentration as controlled variable and manipulates the reactor input temperature, and the secondary control loop uses the fuel flow as manipulated variable to control the output furnace temperature. The predictive internal model control and PID conventional feedback control techniques were used. The results show the efficiency of the proposed strategy in controlling reactor outlet p-xilene concentration. The predictive !MC controller shows the best results being indicated as the best controller fo that purpose

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controle preditivo isomerização

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