화학공학소재연구정보센터
SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization, Vol.54, No.3, 1697-1718, 2016
OPTIMAL FEEDBACK SYNTHESIS AND MINIMAL TIME FUNCTION FOR THE BIOREMEDIATION OF WATER RESOURCES WITH TWO PATCHES
This paper studies the bioremediation, in minimal time, of a water resource or reservoir using a single continuous bioreactor. The bioreactor is connected to two pumps, at different locations in the reservoir, that pump polluted water and inject back sufficiently clean water with the same flow rate. This leads to a minimal-time optimal control problem where the control variables are related to the inflow rates of both pumps. We obtain a nonconvex problem for which it is not possible to directly prove the existence of its solutions. We overcome this difficulty and fully solve the studied problem by applying Pontryagin's principle to the associated generalized control problem. We also obtain explicit bounds on its value function via Hamilton-Jacobi-Bellman techniques.