Control of a LDPE reactive extrusion process

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2000, Pages 911-920

  Nield, Stuart A ^a   Budman, Hector M ^a   Tzoganakis, Costas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Model based control; Plastics industry

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXTRUSION; LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

POWER LAW INDEX; REACTIVE EXTRUSION PROCESS;

PROCESS CONTROL;

CONTROL; EXTRUDER; EXTRUSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; POLYETHYLENE;

EID: 0034253511     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0661(00)00008-3     Document Type: Article

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