Multivariable control of ill-conditioned distillation columns utilizing process knowledge

Journal of Process Control

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 197-208

  Sågfors, Mats F ^a   Waller, Kurt V ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

Directionality; Distillation columns; Multivariable control; Singular value decomposition

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; ERROR DETECTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS CONTROL; RELIABILITY;

INPUT OUTPUT MODEL; SINGLE VALUE DECOMPOSITION; TWO PRODUCT CONTROL;

MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0032095045     PISSN: 09591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-1524(97)00037-1     Document Type: Article

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