Stability analysis of an adaptive control strategy for simulated moving bed chromatographic processes

Simulated Moving Bed (SMB) chromatographic systems are continuous processes designed for the total or partial separation of complex chemical mixtures. These hybrid nonlinear processes are difficult to operate and very sensitive to disturbances. A simple adaptive controller that can be applied with minimum prior knowledge about the process parameters has recently been proposed by our research group. In this work, A stability analysis is performed considering two different plant/sensor configurations.