Simulated counterflow chromatigraphic separations exhibit a complex
dynamical behaviour. In this thesis, two new concepts for the control of
these processes, and a new concept for the state reconstruction are
presented. From a detailed process model, which encounters the
continuous and the discrete dynamics separately, strongly simplified
models are derived for the synthesis of the system. Thereby, control and
observation algorithms of low complexity are obtained. The practical
relevance of the results is shown by numerical simulations.