Compartmental modeling of high purity air separation columns

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2005, Pages 2096-2109

  Bian, Shoujun ^a   Khowinij, Suabtragool ^a   Henson, Michael A ^a   Belanger, Paul ^b   Megan, Lawrence ^b  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b PRAXAIR INC   (United States)

Author keywords

Air separation; Distillation column; Dynamic modeling; Nonlinear control

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CRYOGENICS; DISTILLATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS; PHASE EQUILIBRIA; PLANTS (BOTANY);

AIR SEPARATION; DISTILLATION COLUMN; DYNAMIC MODELING; NONLINEAR CONTROL;

AIR PURIFICATION;

AIR; DISTILLATION COLUMN; GAS SEPARATION; MODELING;

EID: 25844530186     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2005.06.002     Document Type: Article

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