This paper is devoted to the temperature control and the stabilization
under input constraints of exothermic chemical reactors. We first con
sider a reactor in which a single and exothermic reaction takes place
and design state feedback controllers to achieve the global and robust
stabilization under input constraints of the reactor. Then, we extend
these results to a general class of exothermic reactors in which mult
iple coupled chemical reactions can take place. (C) 1997 Elsevier Scie
nce Ltd.