Two-point control of a reactive distillation column for composition and conversion

Journal of Process Control

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 19-31

  Sneesby, Martin G ^a   Tadé, Moses O ^a   Smith, Terence N ^a  

^a CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Inferential model; Reactive distillation; Two point control

Indexed keywords

REACTIVE DISTILLATION; TWO-POINT CONTROL;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 0033080152     PISSN: 09591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-1524(98)00007-9     Document Type: Article

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