Optimization and control of industrial gas-phase ethylene polymerization reactors

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 37, Issue 8, 1998, Pages 3414-3423

  Ali, E M ^a   Abasaeed, A E ^a   Al Zahrani, S M ^a  

^a KING SAUD UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CHEMICAL REACTORS; CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MONOMERS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; POLYETHYLENES; POLYMERIZATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; TWO TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

STATIC ANALYSIS;

FLUIDIZED BEDS;

EID: 0032136091     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie980048+     Document Type: Article

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