Control of a solution copolymerization reactor using multi-model predictive control

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2003, Pages 1207-1221

  Özkan, Leyla ^a   Kothare, Mayuresh V ^a   Georgakis, Christos ^b  

^a Lehigh University   (United States)

^b POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Linear matrix inequalities; Model predictive control; Nonlinear dynamics; Polymer; Process control; System engineering

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COPOLYMERIZATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

COPOLYMERIZATION REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

COPOLYMERIZATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PROCESS CONTROL; REACTOR;

EID: 0037380037     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0009-2509(02)00559-6     Document Type: Article

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