Dynamic compartmental modeling of nitrogen purification columns

Separation and Purification Technology

Volumn 46, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 95-109

  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 columns; Dynamic modeling; Nonlinear control

Indexed keywords

ALGEBRA; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; ORDINARY DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; PURIFICATION;

COMPUTATIONAL EFFICIENCY; MATLAB; NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROLERS (NMPC); STAGE-BY-STAGE BALANCE MODELS;

NITROGEN;

EID: 26944481520     PISSN: 13835866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2005.05.001     Document Type: Article

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