An Economic Model Predictive Moisture Controller for Vibrated Fluidized Bed Drying

Tölle, Stefan Ruben; Delvos, Alana; Breitkreutz, Jörg; Elkhashap, Ahmed Yousry Abdellatif Elsaid; Vallery, Heike; Stemmler, Sebastian; Klinken-Uth, Stefan

doi:10.18154/RWTH-2026-00498

An Economic Model Predictive Moisture Controller for Vibrated Fluidized Bed Drying

Tölle, Stefan Ruben^RWTH* ; Klinken-Uth, Stefan ; Elkhashap, Ahmed Yousry Abdellatif Elsaid^RWTH* ; Delvos, Alana ; Vallery, Heike^RWTH* ; Breitkreutz, Jörg ; Stemmler, Sebastian^RWTH*

2026

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Online
DOI: 10.18154/RWTH-2026-00498
URL: https://publications.rwth-aachen.de/record/1025048/files/mpc-for-vfbd-V1.0.zip
URL: https://git-ce.rwth-aachen.de/stefantoelle/mpc-for-vfbd/

Einrichtungen

Lehrstuhl und Institut für Regelungstechnik (416610)

Projekte

DFG project G:(GEPRIS)504702251 - Modellbasierte Qualitätsregelung in der kontinuierlichen Produktion pharmazeutischer Granulate und Tabletten (QC4CM) (504702251) (504702251)

Inhaltliche Beschreibung (Schlagwörter)
continuous fluidized bed drying (frei) ; distributed parameter systems (frei) ; near-infrared spectroscopy (frei) ; quality-by-control (frei) ; nonlinear model predictive control (frei)

Kurzfassung
This project contains an economic model predictive controller for the residual moisture content of the QbCon 1 (L.B. Bohle Maschinen+Verfahren, Ennigerloh, Germany) vibrated fluidized bed dryer. The controller uses the process parameters air flow, air temperature, and vibration acceleration to regulate the residual moisture content. It relies on inline near-infrared measurements of the moisture content at the dryer outlet. The controller can be executed in a simulation environment or connected to the physical process.

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