Effect of interaction multiplicity on control system design for a MTBE reactive distillation column

Journal of Process Control

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 503-515

  Wang, S J ^a   Wong, D S H ^b   Lee, E K ^b  

^a TA HWA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL TSING HUA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Control system designKa; MTBE; Reactive distillation

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION; STOICHIOMETRY; SYNTHESIS (CHEMICAL);

REACTIVE DISTILLATION;

LINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 0037412107     PISSN: 09591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0959-1524(02)00111-7     Document Type: Article

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