Chemical Engineering Science, Vol.49, No.11, 1743-1748, 1994
Stability of a Class of Uncertain Continuous Stirred Chemical Reactors with a Nonlinear Feedback
The stability properties of a class of controlled continuous stirred tank reactors with parameter uncertainties are studied. Departing from the concept of practical stabilizability, it is proved that an input-output linearizing type feedback can take the trajectories of the reactor arbitrarily close to the set point, despite parameter uncertainties. The resulting feedback is interpreted as a high-gain nonlinear one.