My research is related with industrial process with nonlinear dynamics. In particular the design of robust observers for monitoring and control purposes
algebraic modelling
Linearizing Control Based on Adaptive Observer for Anaerobic Continuous Sulphate Reducing Bioreactors with Unknown Kinetics (with María Isabel Neria-González, A R. Domínguez-Bocanegra, J Torres, and Rafael Maya-Yescas), Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quaterly (2009)
Anaerobic reactors are a typical example of processes that exhibit non-linear behavior and, also time...
Catalyst activity
Tracking Catalyst Activity during Fluidized-bed Catalytic Cracking (with Rafael Maya-Yescas, Gladys Jiménez-García, and Elizabeth León-Becerril), Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research (2008)
Fluidized- bed Catalytic Cracking (FCC) of vacuum gas oils, which produces aggregated value liquid fuels...
Chemical Reactor Control
Outlet Temperature Regulation for a Class of Plug Flow Chemical Reactor via Nonlinear Feedback, International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (2009)
The aim of this paper is the regulation of the temperature, at outlet conditions, for...
Control Process
Temperature Regulation via PI High-Order Sliding-Mode Controller Design: Application to a Class of Chemical Reactor (with Rafael Martínez-Guerra and Rafael Maya-Yescas), International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (2009)
The main issue of this paper is the synthesis of a robust control law for...
Exponential Observer Design for State Estimation in a Class of Anaerobic Sulfate Reducing Bioreactor (with Ricardo Acevedo-Gómez), Chemical Product and Process Modeling (2009)
The objective of this work is to infer the biomass and product concentrations in a...
Sliding-mode Observer for Uncertainty Estimation in a Class of Chemical Reactor: A Differential-Algebraic Approach, Chemical Product and Process Modeling (2009)
The problem of the on-line estimation of the reaction heat in a continuous stirred tank...
INDEXED JOURNAL PAPERS
Linearizing Control Based on Adaptive Observer for Anaerobic Continuous Sulphate Reducing Bioreactors with Unknown Kinetics (with María Isabel Neria-González, A R. Domínguez-Bocanegra, J Torres, and Rafael Maya-Yescas), Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quaterly (2009)
Anaerobic reactors are a typical example of processes that exhibit non-linear behavior and, also time...
Kinetics Engineering
Scaling-up of Instantaneous Data of Complex Kinetics (with Gladys Jiménez-García, Elizabeth León-Becerril, and Rafael Maya-Yescas), FUEL (2007)
Kinetic data related to complex mixtures of reactants and catalysts are necessary to simulate design...
Process Control
Tracking Trajectories in a Continuous Anaerobic Bioreactor Employing a Nonlinear Proportional Controller (with M. Isabel Neria-Gonzalez), International Journal of Chemical Reactor Engineering (2009)
This work is related to the tracking of sulfate concentration trajectories in a continuous anaerobic...
Process engineering
Linearizing Control Based on Adaptive Observer for Anaerobic Continuous Sulphate Reducing Bioreactors with Unknown Kinetics (with María Isabel Neria-González, A R. Domínguez-Bocanegra, J Torres, and Rafael Maya-Yescas), Chemical and Biochemical Engineering Quaterly (2009)
Anaerobic reactors are a typical example of processes that exhibit non-linear behavior and, also time...
Tracking Catalyst Activity during Fluidized-bed Catalytic Cracking (with Rafael Maya-Yescas, Gladys Jiménez-García, and Elizabeth León-Becerril), Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research (2008)
Fluidized- bed Catalytic Cracking (FCC) of vacuum gas oils, which produces aggregated value liquid fuels...
Robust Temperature Stabilization for Fluid Catalytic Cracking Units Using Extended Kalman-Type Estimators (with Rafael Maya-Yescas), Chemical Product and Process Modeling (2007)
Fluidised-bed Catalytic Cracking (FCC) units, are one of the most complex and interactive processes in...
Scaling-up of Instantaneous Data of Complex Kinetics (with Gladys Jiménez-García, Elizabeth León-Becerril, and Rafael Maya-Yescas), FUEL (2007)
Kinetic data related to complex mixtures of reactants and catalysts are necessary to simulate design...
Sulphur oxides emission during fluidised-bed catalytic cracking (with Rafael Maya-Yescas, Eduardo Villafuerte-Macías, and Daniel Salazar-Sotelo), Chemical Engineering Journal (2005)
Fluidised-bed catalytic cracking (FCC) of heavy gas oils into high value liquid fuels is a...
Process simulation and monitoring
On-line Monitoring in an Aerobic Batch Bioreactor Employing a Robust Soft Sensor, Chemical Product and Process Modeling (2007)
The main objective of this work is to design a soft sensor with finite convergence...
Reactor control
Inverse dynamics: A problem on transient controllability for industrial plants (with Rafael Maya-Yescas), Inverse Problems in Science and Engineering (2008)
Optimal performance of controlled industrial processes depends upon the dynamic response of the inverse of...
Input-Output Linearizing Control based on Robust Observers: Application to a Class of Reacting Systems (with Rafael Maya-Yescas), Techniques and Methodologies for Modelling and Simulation Systems (2005)
The aim of this paper is the synthesis of a robust control law for regulation...
State Estimation for Nonlinear Systems under Model Uncertainties: A Class of Sliding-Mode Observers (with Rafael Maya-Yescas), Journal of Process Control (2005)
This paper deals with the classical problem of state estimation, considering partially unknown, nonlinear systems...
State Estimation via Nonlinear Observer under Model Unobservable Uncertainties (with Sergio Martínez and Rafael Maya-Yescas), Techniques and Methodologies for Modelling and Simulation Systems (2005)
This paper deals with the classical problem of state estimation, considering partially unknown nonlinear systems...
Feedback Regulation of Temperature in FCC Regenerator Reactors (with Rafael Maya-Yescas), Petroleum Science & Technology (2004)
Design of regulative control laws for stabilization of regenerator temperature in adiabatic Fluid Catalytic Cracking...