Passivity based inventory and flow control in flat glass manufacture

Abstract

In this paper we develop the theory for passivity based inventory and flow control for application to industrial, flat glass manufacture. The main stability result is derived using an extension Tellegen's Theorem and a storage function based on the Gibbs' tangent plane criterion for phase stability. The application to flat glass manufacture shows that the process variables are stabilized and that the product yields increase.

Passivity based control of transport reaction systems

“…A description of this approach and its application to finite dimensional systems with and without input constraints is given by Farschman et al (1998). 5 Ydstie and Jiao (2004) 26 applies inventory and flow control to a float glass production system and Ruszkowski et al (2005) 27 applied inventory and flow control to real-time optimization of a silicon furnace.…”