Model predictive control of the primary drying stage of the drying of solutions in vials: an Application of the MPC@CB Software (Part 1)

Nawal Daraoui (1) , Pascal Dufour (1) , Hassan Hammouri (1)

1 LAGEP - Laboratoire d'automatique et de génie des procédés

This paper deals with the first principle model based predictive control of the primary drying stage of a freeze drying of solutions in vials. In the proposed control approach, any online control problem concerned with a constrained optimization during the primary drying stage may be stated. It is solved using a special model predictive control framework where the model is used in the controller formulation. Our first simulation results show here the efficiency of the control software developed (MPC@CB) under Matlab. MPC@CB may be easily used for any other process and any constrained control problem.

Mots clés: Lyophlisation; process control; optimization; drying; heat transfer; mass transfer

Domaines: Automatique / Robotique; Génie des procédés

Nawal Daraoui, Pascal Dufour, Hassan Hammouri. Model predictive control of the primary drying stage of the drying of solutions in vials: an Application of the MPC@CB Software (Part 1). Asia-Pacific Drying Conference (ADC), Aug 2007, Hong-Kong, China. pp.883-888. ⟨hal-00352431⟩