Hybrid System Descriptions for Chemical Engineering Processes

The hybrid description for process modeling has the advantage of allowing a more flexible description for dynamic models in the presence of state jumps and logical decisions. This work presents hybrid descriptions for processes of interest in Chemical Engineering, therefore, phenomena such as change in the number of stages/phases, processes failures, tolerant control, procedures or arrangements between stages, and jump on variables may be assessed by the verification of computational hybrid models. Cases of interest of process modeling, simulation, control and analysis are discussed.