Journal
DRYING TECHNOLOGY
Volume 29, Issue 15, Pages 1820-1827Publisher
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC
DOI: 10.1080/07373937.2011.604461
Keywords
Dryer control; Drying modeling; Nonlinear model predictive control
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- Conicyt bureau (Fondecyt) [1090316, 1090062]
- scientific and technological research department of the University of Santiago of Chile (DICYT)
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The application of a Grey-box Neural Model (GNM) in a nonlinear model predictive control scheme (NMPC) of a direct rotary dyer is presented in this work. The GNM, which is based on the combination of phenomenological models and empirical artificial neural network (ANN) models, was properly developed and validated by using experimental fish-meal rotary drying information. The GNM was created by combining the rotary dryer mass and energy balances and a feed forward neural network (FFNN), trained off-line to estimate the drying rate and the volumetric heat transfer coefficient. The GNM results allowed us to obtain the relation between the controlled variable (solid moisture content) and the manipulated variable (gas phase entrance temperature) used in the predictive control strategy. Two NMPC control strategies, one with a fixed extended prediction horizon and another with an extended range prediction horizon, were applied to a simulated industrial fish-meal drying process. The results showed that a correct rotary dryer representation can be obtained by using a GNM approach. Due to the representation capability of the GNM approach, excellent control performances of the NMPCs were observed when the process variables were subject to disturbances. As analyzed in this work, the fixed extended prediction horizon MPC surpassed recognized control methodologies (quadratic dynamic matrix control).
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