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Analysis of a periodic optimal control problem connected to microalgae anaerobic digestion. (English) Zbl 1333.49005

Summary: In this work, we study the coupling of a culture of microalgae limited by light and an anaerobic digester in a two-tank bioreactor. The model for the reactor combines a periodic day-night light for the culture of microalgae and a classical chemostat model for the digester. We first prove the existence and attraction of periodic solutions of this problem for a 1 day period. Then, we study the optimal control problem of optimizing the production of methane in the digester during a certain timeframe, the control on the system being the dilution rate (the input flow of microalgae in the digester). We apply Pontryagin’s Maximum Principle in order to characterize optimal controls, including the computation of singular controls. We present numerical simulations by direct and indirect methods for different light models and compare the optimal 1-day periodic solution to the optimal strategy over larger timeframes. Finally, we also investigate the dependence of the optimal cost with respect to the volume ratio of the two tanks.

MSC:

49J15 Existence theories for optimal control problems involving ordinary differential equations
49K15 Optimality conditions for problems involving ordinary differential equations
49N90 Applications of optimal control and differential games
92C40 Biochemistry, molecular biology

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