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• Preface -- 1 DAEs: Background and Concepts -- 1. Introduction -- 1.2 Linear Systems -- 1.3 Nonlinear Systems -- 1.3.1 Descriptions -- 1.3.2 Solvability and Index -- 1.3.3 Comparison of high-index DAE and ODE systems -- 1.3.4 Regularity -- 2 Chemical Process Applications -- 2.1 Reactor with Fast Heat Transfer through Heating Jacket -- 2.2 Reactor with Fast and Slow Reactions -- 2.3 Two-Phase Reactor with Fast Mass Transfer -- 2.4 Cascade of Reactors with High Pressure Gaseous Flow -- 2.5 Reaction-Separation Process Network with Large Recycle -- 2.6 Reactor with High-Gain Pressure Controller -- 2.7 Flow of Incompressible Fluids -- 2.8 Conclusions -- 3 Feedback Control of Regular DAE systems -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Preliminaries -- 3.3 Derivation of State-Space Realizations -- 3.3.1 Algorithm for reconstruction of algebraic variables -- 3.3.2 State-space realizations of DAE system -- 3.4 State Feedback Controller Synthesis -- 3.4.1 Preliminaries -- 3.4.2 Problem formulation -- 3.4.3 Controller synthesis -- 3.5 Conclusions -- 4 Feedback Control of Nonregular DAE Systems -- 4.1 Introduction -- 4.2 Preliminaries -- 4.3 Algorithm for Derivation of Equivalent DAE System with Explicit Constraints in x Involving u -- 4.4 Dynamic State Feedback Regularization -- 4.5 State-Space Realizations and Controller Synthesis -- 4.6 Conclusions -- 5 Control of DAE Systems with Disturbance Inputs -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 System Description and Preliminaries -- 5.3 Algorithm for Identification of Constraints -- 5.4 State-Space Realizations and Feedforward /State Feedback Control of Regular Systems -- 5.5 Feedforward /State Feedback Regularization and Control r• Nonregular Systems -- 5.6 Conclusions -- 6 DAEs and Singularly Perturbed Systems -- 6.1 Introduction -- 6.2 Standard vs. Nonstandard Singularly Perturbed Systems -- 6.3 Derivation of Standard Singularly Perturbed Representation of Rate-Based Models -- 6.4 Singularly Perturbed Models of Process Networks -- 7 Simulation Studies of Chemical Process Applications -- 7.1 A CSTR with heating jacket -- 7.2 A CSTR with multiple reactions -- 7.3 Two-Phase Reactor -- 7.3.1 State-space realization -- 7.3.2 Controller synthesis -- 7.3.3 Discussion of controller performance -- 7.4 Reactor-Condenser Network -- 7.4.1 Process description and modeling -- 7.4.2 Feedforward /feedback regularization and state-space realization -- 7.4.3 Feedforward /feedback controller synthesis and control performance -- Bibliography.

"This valuable monograph presents in a unified framework, recent results on systems described by coupled nonlinear differential and algebraic equations …The book is an excellent reference for engineers and applied mathematicians interested in this relatively new subject, that has been developing steadily over the last few years."-Dieter Franke in Mathematical Reviews