Multimodel identification for control of an ill-conditioned distillation column

Journal of Process Control

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 209-218

  Haggblom K E ^a   Boling J M ^a  

^a ÅBO AKADEMI UNIVERSITY   (Finland)

Author keywords

Directionality; Distillation; Identification for control; Ill conditioned systems

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SYSTEM SYNTHESIS; CONTROLLABILITY; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROCESS CONTROL;

DIRECTIONALITY; ILL CONDITIONED SYSTEMS;

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

EID: 0032098901     PISSN: 09591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-1524(97)00040-1     Document Type: Article

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