A composition estimator for multicomponent distillation columns - development and experimental test on ternary mixtures

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 53, Issue 20, 1998, Pages 3601-3612

  Baratti, Roberto ^a   Bertucco, Alberto ^d   Da Rold, Alessandro ^b   Morbidelli, Massimo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAGLIARI   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d NONE

Author keywords

Distillation columns; Estimator; Extended Kalman filter; Multicomponent; Nonlinear

Indexed keywords

KALMAN FILTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MIXTURES;

EXTENDED KALMAN FILTERS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

DISTILLATION COLUMN; MIXTURE; SEPARATION;

EID: 0032538647     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(98)00178-X     Document Type: Article

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