Modeling and Control of Reaction Calorimeter System

In dealing with calorimetry, safety aspects are very important. It is therefore very useful to be able to study a process before carrying out experiments on it. A computer model can then be very useful to save time and money. The purpose of this thesis was to construct a computer model of the Chemisens reaction calorimeter, in the modeling software Dymola. For the purpose of the modeling, a new Dymola library was developed, specific for the calorimeter. The task was also to investigate the control of the calorimeter. The existing cascade control was implemented in the computer model as well as PID and LQG control. The results from the modeling were surprisingly good and the controllers also worked well