Identification of Polymerization Reactor Using Third Order Volterra Kernel Model

It is known that Volterra kernel model can represent a wide variety of nonlinear chemical processes. But almost all Volterra kernel models which appeared in the literature are up to second order, because it was difficult to measure higher order Volterra kernels. Kashiwagi has recently shown a method for measuring Volterra kernels up to third order using pseudorandom M-sequence signals. In this paper, the authors verified the applicability of this method for chemical processes using polymerization reactor simulation. Also, the authors have recently proposed a practical Identification method for chemical processes, which is based on the combination of off-line nonlinear identification and on-line linear identification. This method is also applied to the identification of polymerization reactor, and we obtained ...