“…Numerous control strategies have been developed to achieve this objective. Input/ output feedback linearization (Viel et al, 1997) for control under constraints, nonlinear PI control (Alvarez-Ramírez & Morales, 2000), direct Lyapunov based control (Antonelli & Astolfi, 2003), (pseudo) Hamiltonian framework (Dörfler, Johnsen, & Allgöwer, 2009;Hangos et al, 2001;Hoang et al, 2011;Ramírez et al, 2009), power/energy-shaping control (Alvarez et al, 2011;Favache & Dochain, 2010), inventory control (Farschman, Viswanath, & Ydstie, 1998) and dissipativity based decentralized control of interconnected chemical reactors (Hudon, Höffner, & Guay, 2008;Hudon & Bao, 2012) provide some examples. Thermodynamics/physics based control has also been proposed to the stabilization of chemical reactors in Georgakis (1986), Ydstie and Alonso (1997) and more recently in using the availability function as its point of departure.…”