SURVEY OF ADVANCED CONTROL OF POLYMERIZATION REACTORS

A survey of the most recent papers regarding the advanced control of p olymerization reactors is carried out. Special attention is focused on optimal control theory, nonlinear control, adaptive control, and pred ictive control. A review is also performed in related areas, such as o ptimization and state estimation in polymerization systems. It is show n that there is a huge gap between industry and research practices. Ac tual implementation of advanced control theory in the polymerization a rea requires the improvement of measurement and state estimation techn iques.