Numerical and experimental comparison of on-line methods for detection of thermal runaway events in batch and semi-batch chemical reactors

Abstract

Paper presented at the 9th International Conference on Heat Transfer, Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, Malta, 16-18 July, 2012.In this paper the results of comparative study carried out for three on-line methods used to detect thermal runaway events in chemical reactors have been presented and discussed. An ability of the criterion of derivatives, the divergence criterion and the algorithm employed neural networks, all used to detect approaching thermal runaways has been compared.