A new method for the adaptive determination of optimum pH and temperature
J L Harmon1, G Lyberatos, S A Svoronos
1Department of Chemical Engineering, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida 32611, USA.
Abstract:
An adaptive control algorithm for the on-line determination of optimal temperature or pH for biomass production in a continuous fermentor is presented. The algorithm requires no prior information and uses a dynamic Hammerstein model to identify parameters and to estimate an optimal steady-state control value. A check of the estimated performance measure second derivative is included to ensure that the target extremum is an optimum. The process is driven towards this optimum with a variable step size that depends on the quality of the on-line identified model. Numerical simulations are performed on a dynamic chemostat model that incorporates a metabolic time delay. The algorithm successfully finds the optimum temperature or pH values and maintains the reactor at the optimum steady state.
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