Development of a softsensor for particle size monitoring

Minerals Engineering

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 55-72

  Del Villar, R G ^a   Thibault, J ^b   Del Villar, R ^b  

^a BARRICK GOLD CORPORATION   (Canada)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Neural networks; On line analysis; Particle size; Process control; Process instrumentation

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; AUTOMATION; CONTROL THEORY; KALMAN FILTERING; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PROCESS CONTROL;

ON-LINE ANALYSIS; PROCESS INSTRUMENTATION; SOFTSENSOR;

CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0029754258     PISSN: 08926875     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0892-6875(95)00131-X     Document Type: Article

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