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Modeling, identification, and control for the production of glycerol by the hydrolysis of tallow

  • Narayani Thirunavukarasu

    Narayani Thirunavukarasu received her BE (Electrical and Electronics) and ME (Instrumentation) from Anna University, Chennai, India, in 2010 and 2012, respectively. Her areas of interest include system identification, process control, and control systems. She is currently pursuing her research under the guidance of Dr. Rames C. Panda at the Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, India.

    and Rames C. Panda

    Rames C. Panda received his MTech and PhD in chemical engineering in 1989 and 1994, respectively, from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. In 1993, he joined the Chemical Engineering Department of CLRI, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, as a scientist. He specializes in industrial instrumentation, auto tuning, PID controllers, and analysis of control systems, process modeling, simulation, and process control-related works.

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Abstract

Most of the oleochemical industries use glycerol as raw material for its adverse commercial applications in various fields. In spite of many available methods to produce glycerol from tallow, hydrolysis is one of the most feasible and widely used methods that draw the attention of doing more research for ensuring the safe operation, production level improvement, and accuracy of the synthesis process. The synthesis using biochemical methods in immobilized packed column lacks fastness compared to that of chemical means, which is enriched with more research problems. To attain inherent safety, improved process control methods need to be designed, which requires the knowledge of transient dynamics and sensitivity analysis of the process. This paper gives a state-of-the-art review of experimental analysis, mathematical modeling, parametric identification, and integrated control systems using sensors, actuators, and respective multiloop controllers for the production of glycerol and fatty acids from tallow fat through chemical/biochemical hydrolysis.


Corresponding author: Rames C. Panda, Department of Chemical Engineering, CSIR-CLRI, Sardar Patel Road, Adyar, Chennai 600 020, India, e-mail: ; and Former Faculty of the Department of Chemical Engineering, Curtin University of Technology, Perth, Australia

About the authors

Narayani Thirunavukarasu

Narayani Thirunavukarasu received her BE (Electrical and Electronics) and ME (Instrumentation) from Anna University, Chennai, India, in 2010 and 2012, respectively. Her areas of interest include system identification, process control, and control systems. She is currently pursuing her research under the guidance of Dr. Rames C. Panda at the Madras Institute of Technology, Anna University, Chennai, India.

Rames C. Panda

Rames C. Panda received his MTech and PhD in chemical engineering in 1989 and 1994, respectively, from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras. In 1993, he joined the Chemical Engineering Department of CLRI, Council of Scientific and Industrial Research, as a scientist. He specializes in industrial instrumentation, auto tuning, PID controllers, and analysis of control systems, process modeling, simulation, and process control-related works.

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Received: 2014-10-8
Accepted: 2015-3-4
Published Online: 2015-5-7
Published in Print: 2015-8-1

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