Dynamics and control of a heterogeneous azeotropic distillation column: Conventional control approach

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 38, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 468-478

  Chien, I L ^a   Wang, C J ^b   Wong, D S H ^b  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALCOHOLS; AZEOTROPES; BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); COMPUTER SIMULATION; PARAFFINS; PROCESS CONTROL; STATISTICAL METHODS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; WATER;

CYCLOHEXANE; ISOPROPYL ALCOHOL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS (PCA);

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

2 PROPANOL; CYCLOHEXANE; WATER;

ALCOHOL; DISTILLATION COLUMN; HYDROCARBON; PROCESS CONTROL; WATER;

ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DECOMPOSITION; DISTILLATION; DYNAMICS; ENTHALPY; STEADY STATE;

EID: 0033083351     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie980269f     Document Type: Article

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