International Journal of Petroleum and Gas Engineering

International Journal of Petroleum and Gas Engineering ISSN 5675-0715 Vol. 2 (12), pp. 001-005, December, 2015. © International Scholars Journals

Full Length Research Paper

Application of nonlinear reduction techniques in chemical process modeling

Ahmmed S. Ibrehem* and Hikmat S. Al-Salim

Department of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering, UCSI University, Kuala Lumpur, 56000, Malaysia.

Accepted 21 July, 2015

Abstract

Model reduction techniques have been used widely in all engineering fields especially in electrical, mechanical as well as chemical engineering. The basic idea of reduction technique is to replace the original system with much smaller state space dimension. A reduced order model is more beneficial to process and industrial field in terms of control purposes by using proper orthogonal decomposition method (POD), which finds applications in computationally processing large amounts of high-dimensional data with the aim of obtaining low-dimensional descriptions that capture a large amount of the phenomena of interest. The discrete version of the POD, which is the singular value decomposition (SVD) of matrices, is described in some detail.

Key words: Model reduction technique, nonlinear model, proper orthogonal decomposition.