Real-time multirate state estimation in a pilot-scale polymerization reactor

AIChE Journal

Volumn 48, Issue 5, 2002, Pages 1022-1033

  Zambare, Neeraj ^a   Soroush, Masoud ^a   Grady, Michael C ^b  

^a Drexel University   (United States)

^b DUPONT COMPANY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; POLYMERS; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS);

POLYMERIZATION REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

MONOMER; STYRENE;

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODEL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERIZATION; REACTOR; STIRRED TANK;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; GAS CHROMATOGRAPHY; GEL PERMEATION CHROMATOGRAPHY; GRAVIMETRY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; PILOT STUDY; POLYMERIZATION; REACTOR;

EID: 0036563384     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690480512     Document Type: Article

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