A New Robust Sliding-Mode Observer Design for Monitoring in Chemical Reactors

Abstract

The robust observer design for the online estimation of heat in continuous stirred tank reactors, containing nonstructured uncertainties within its model description as well as noisy temperature measurements, is addressed. The proposed observer contains a sliding-mode term and is designed based on Differential Algebraic technique. The concept of the algebraic observability for a given class of model uncertainty is introduced. It is applied to the uncertainty estimation from noisy temperature measurements providing a simple observer structure which turns out to be robust against output (sensors) noises as well as sustained disturbances. The performance of this observer is shown to be calculated numerically. The obtained results look promising for possible industrial applications.