Optimal control of a linear unbranched chemical process with n steps: the quasi-analytical solution

摘要

In this paper we present a method to solve a constrained optimal control problem to calculate the optimal enzyme concentrations in a chemical process by considering the minimization of the transition time. Themethod, based on Pontryagin's Minimum Principle, allows us to obtain the generalized solution of an n-step system with an unbranched scheme and bilinear kinetic models in an almost exclusively analytical way.