Control of Semicontinuous Emulsion Copolymerization Reactors

AIChE Journal

Volumn 43, Issue 8, 1997, Pages 2021-2033

  Saldívar, Enrique ^a   Ray, W Harmon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL VARIABLES CONTROL; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; COPOLYMERIZATION; EMULSION POLYMERIZATION; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; OPTIMIZATION; POLYMETHYL METHACRYLATES; POLYVINYL ACETATES; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL;

OPEN LOOP POLICIES;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

EID: 0031207439     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690430811     Document Type: Article

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