Distillate-bottoms control of middle-vessel distillation columns

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 1840-1849

  Phimister, James R ^a   Seider, Warren D ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); FLOW CONTROL; MATRIX ALGEBRA; TRANSFER FUNCTIONS; TWO TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

DISTILLATE BOTTOMS CONTROL; DISTILLATE FLOW RATE; GAIN MATRIX; MIDDLE VESSEL DISTILLATION COLUMNS; SUMP LEVEL;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

CONTROL METHOD; DISTILLATION COLUMN; FLOW CONTROL;

ARTICLE; DISTILLATION; FLOW RATE; STEADY STATE;

EID: 0034124883     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie990890v     Document Type: Article

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