CarboNet: A Finite-Time Combustion-Tolerant Compartmental Network for Tropospheric Carbon Control
Federico Zocco, Wassim M. Haddad, Monica Malvezzi

TL;DR
This paper introduces a novel compartmental network model and control strategies to reduce tropospheric CO2 levels to pre-industrial levels within about two months, aiding climate stabilization efforts.
Contribution
It presents a new finite-time control framework for a compartmental CO2 network, enabling effective regulation of emissions from vehicles and heaters to achieve net-zero targets.
Findings
CO2 levels reach pre-industrial levels in approximately 25-60 days.
Output-feedback controller tolerates 6 days of combustion in thousands of vehicles and heaters.
Tropospheric temperature stabilizes at 13.5°C, significantly lower than without control.
Abstract
While governments and international organizations have set the net-zero target to prevent a climate event horizon, practical solutions are lacking mainly because of the impracticability in completely replacing combustion processes. To address the net-zero target problem, in this paper we first design a compartmental network whose states must remain in the nonnegative orthant for physical consistency and in which the carbon dioxide emissions result from the combustion of diesel in vehicles and gas in house heaters. Then, we design both full-state and output-feedback linear-quadratic regulators of the compartmental network to bring the mass of carbon dioxide to the pre-industrial era, which is reached in approximately 25 and 60 days, respectively. The output-feedback controller tolerates for 6 days the combustion taking place in 5,000 vehicles and in 10,000 house heating systems, meets…
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