Optimizing control of a wall-cooled fixed-bed reactor

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 54, Issue 13-14, 1999, Pages 2739-2744

  Zhou, Xing Gui ^a   Liu, Liang Hong ^a   Yuan, Wei Kang ^a  

^a EAST CHINA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

Fixed bed reactor; K L expansion; Neural networks; On line optimization; Optimizing control; Predictive control

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE;

NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE ALGORITHM; ON LINE OPTIMIZATION; WALL COOLED FIXED BED REACTOR;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

FIXED BED; OPTIMIZATION; PROCESS CONTROL; REACTOR;

EID: 0033166135     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(98)00368-6     Document Type: Article

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