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Vol: 58(72) No: 2 / June 2013        

pH Control of the Residual Water in an Industrial Blunting System
Vlad Mureşan
Department of Automation, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Automation and Computer Science, 26-28 Gh. Bariţiu Street, 400027 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, phone: +40-744420906, e-mail: Vlad.Muresan@aut.utcluj.ro
Mihail Abrudean
Department of Automation, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Automation and Computer Science, 26-28 Gh. Bariţiu Street, 400027 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, e-mail: Mihai.Abrudean@aut.utcluj.ro
Tiberiu Coloşi
Department of Automation, Technical University of Cluj-Napoca, Faculty of Automation and Computer Science, 26-28 Gh. Bariţiu Street, 400027 Cluj-Napoca, Romania, e-mail: Tiberiu.Colosi@aut.utcluj.ro


Keywords: blunting system, partial differential equation, distributed parameter process, matrix of partial derivatives of the state vector, cream of lime, pH

Abstract
This paper presents a method for the pH modeling, simulation and control of the residual water in a blunting system. The blunting process, being a distributed parameter one is modeled using partial differential equations. In the modeling procedure the effect of the two reacting substances (the acid and the cream of lime) are considered separately, the final value of the pH being their resultant. The numerical simulation of the control system is based on the matrix of partial derivatives of the state vector (Mpdx), method associated with Taylor series. This method generates a very high accuracy and is appropriate for the case of the distributed parameter processes.

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