Control of a reactive separation process

Chemical Engineering and Processing

Volumn 42, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 201-210

  Engell, Sebastian ^a   Fernholz, Gregor ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Control structure selection; Feedback control; Methyl acetate process; Neural networks; Nonlinear control; Predictive control; Reactive distillation

Indexed keywords

CONTROL EQUIPMENT; DISTILLATION;

REACTIVE SEPARATION;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING;

CONTROL SYSTEM; DISTILLATION; MODELING; NEURAL NETWORK; PROCESS CONTROL; REACTIVE SEPARATION;

EID: 0037332336     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0255-2701(02)00089-2     Document Type: Article

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