On-line runaway detection in batch reactors using chaos theory techniques

AIChE Journal

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 1999, Pages 2429-2443

  Strozzi, F ^a   Zaldivar J M ^a   Kronberg, A E ^b   Westerterp, K R ^b  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHAOS THEORY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ONLINE SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EARLY WARNING DETECTION SYSTEM; ISOPERIBOLIC BATCH REACTORS;

CHEMICAL REACTORS;

ARTICLE; CALCULATION; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; MODEL; NONLINEAR SYSTEM; REACTION ANALYSIS; REACTOR; SIMULATION; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0344241093     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.690451116     Document Type: Article

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