New Approach To Develop Dynamic Gray Box Model for a Plasticating Twin-Screw Extruder
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Abstract
The dynamic behaviors of the process variables of a twin screw extruder (TSE) have inherent nonlinearity and time delay. Thus, it is important to develop a process model and furthermore to design controllers based on that model for stable operation. A new approach is explained in this work to develop dynamic gray box models to predict the responses of the process output variables due to change in the screw speed ( N ) for a plasticating TSE. This approach comprises the selection of controlled variables and the development of gray box models relating the selected controlled variables and N . The selection of variables was based on both the steady-state correlation analysis with final product properties and the dynamic considerations. High-density polyethylenes with different melt indices were extruded in a co-rotating TSE in this work. A predesigned random binary sequence type excitation in N was imposed for the dynamic study. Gray box models were developed between two output variables, melt temperature ( T melt ) at die and melt pressure ( P melt ) at die, with N, by incorporating both first principles knowledge of the process and the measured process data using the classical system identification technique. A second-order ARMAX (autoregressive moving average with exogenous input) model was found to be sufficient to capture the dynamic behaviors of T melt when N was changed. However, the dynamic behavior of P melt was modeled by a third-order ARMAX structure. Both models are in agreement with the a priori process information of the TSE.
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