{"title":"Optimal boundary control for the heat equation with application to freezing with phase change","authors":"C. J. Backi, J. Gravdahl","doi":"10.1109/AUCC.2013.6697308","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"In this paper an approach for optimal boundary control of a parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) is presented. The parabolic PDE is the heat equation for thermal conduction. A technical application for this is the freezing of fish in a vertical plate freezer. As it is a dominant phenomenon in the process of freezing, the latent heat of fusion is included in the model. The aim of the optimization is to freeze the interior of a fish block below -18 °C in a predefined time horizon with an energy consumption that is as low as possible assuming that this corresponds to high freezing temperatures.","PeriodicalId":177490,"journal":{"name":"2013 Australian Control Conference","volume":"3 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2013-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"8","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2013 Australian Control Conference","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/AUCC.2013.6697308","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
In this paper an approach for optimal boundary control of a parabolic partial differential equation (PDE) is presented. The parabolic PDE is the heat equation for thermal conduction. A technical application for this is the freezing of fish in a vertical plate freezer. As it is a dominant phenomenon in the process of freezing, the latent heat of fusion is included in the model. The aim of the optimization is to freeze the interior of a fish block below -18 °C in a predefined time horizon with an energy consumption that is as low as possible assuming that this corresponds to high freezing temperatures.