Control and supervision of a complex production process using hybrid systems techniques

Conference · Sat Dec 30 23:00:00 EST 1995

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1109/ICECCS.1995.479305· OSTI ID:201758

Garcia, H E

New processing activities for the decommissioning of the Experimental Breeder Reactor 2 are being carried out at Argonne National Laboratory. The task addressed in this paper is a process to convert metallic sodium to sodium carbonate. The main idea is to characterize this sodium operation as a system that integrates real-time continuous and discrete-event components and then apply hybrid system techniques to design and implement the control and supervisory policies. This paper introduces the research in progress at ANL on this conversion process, the flow of material, and the hybrid control solution.

• Research Organization: Argonne National Lab., Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE, Washington, DC (United States)
• DOE Contract Number: W-31109-ENG-38
• OSTI ID: 201758
• Report Number(s): ANL/ED/CP--87433; CONF-9511177--1; ON: DE96005272
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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