Modeling and optimization of a model IV fluidized catalytic cracking unit

AIChE Journal

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 1998, Pages 2068-2079

  Ellis, Robert C ^a,b   Li, Xuan ^a   Riggs, James B ^a  

^a Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

^b ASPEN TECHNOLOGY INC   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER SOFTWARE; CONSTRAINT THEORY; FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; ONLINE SYSTEMS; PROBLEM SOLVING; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING;

STEADY-STATE MODELS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

REFINERY;

EID: 0032172430     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690440914     Document Type: Article

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