ContCarSim

Continuous Carousel Simulator

Benchmark simulator of continuous carousel for integrated filtration-drying of crystallization slurries.

Please refer to UserManual.pdf for instructions on how to use the simulator.

Default MEX files are compiled for Windows machines. MEX files for macOS users are in the MACOS subfolder. The C sources of the MEX files are provided in the "simulator" folder.

No toolbox is needed for running the basic simulator, contained in the "simulator" folder.

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The "advanced control" folder contains the files to be copied in the main simulator folder to run the advanced model-based control routines described in:

Destro, F., M. Barolo and Z. K. Nagy (2022). Quality-by-control of intensified continuous filtration-drying of active pharmaceutical ingredients. AIChE J

To run the advanced control routines, an installation of the following MATLAB toolboxes is needed: Optimization Toolbox (version 9.1), System Identification Toolbox (version 9.15) and Adaptive Robust Numerical Differentiation Toolbox (version 1.6). Although any version of the toolboxes can be used, full reproducibility of the results of the paper is guaranteed only with the reported versions.