On-line multi-variable predictive control of molar mass and particle size distributions in free-radical emulsion copolymerization

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 60, Issue 23, 2005, Pages 6596-6606

  Alhamad, Bassam ^a   Romagnoli, Jose A ^a   Gomes, Vincent G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dynamic modelling; Emulsion copolymerization; Model predictive control; Molar mass; Particle size distribution

Indexed keywords

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS); MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MONOMERS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PARTICLE SIZE ANALYSIS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

DYNAMIC MODELING; EMULSION COPOLYMERIZATION; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; MOLAR MASS; PARTICLE SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

COPOLYMERIZATION; EMULSION; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 27444435564     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2005.05.053     Document Type: Article

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