The effects of external disturbances on the performance and chaotic behaviour of industrial FCC units

Chaos, Solitons and Fractals

Volumn 8, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1941-1955

  Abasaeed, A E ^a   Elnashaie, S S E H ^b  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; GASOLINE;

AIR FEED TEMPERATURES;

FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING;

EID: 0031375443     PISSN: 09600779     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0960-0779(97)00038-6     Document Type: Article

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