FCC unit modeling, identification and model predictive control, a simulation study

Chemical Engineering and Processing

Volumn 42, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 311-325

  Jia, Chunyang ^a   Rohani, Sohrab ^a   Jutan, Arthur ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Fluid catalytic cracking; Matlab simulation; Model predictive control; Subspace process identification

Indexed keywords

DECOMPOSITION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; STATE SPACE METHODS;

OIL REFINERY;

FLUID CATALYTIC CRACKING;

MODEL;

EID: 0037374681     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0255-2701(02)00055-7     Document Type: Article

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