Building inferential estimators for modeling product quality in a crude oil desalting and dehydration process

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 45, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 568-577

  Abdul Wahab, S ^a   Elkamel, A ^b   Madhuranthakam, C R ^b   Al Otaibi, M B ^c  

^a SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^c KUWAIT OIL COMPANY   (Kuwait)

Author keywords

Desalting dehydration process; Inferential estimators; Principal component analysis; Product quality

Indexed keywords

COMPUTATION THEORY; DEHYDRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALT REMOVAL;

INFERENTIAL ESTIMATORS; NON-LINEAR REGRESSIONS; PRODUCT QUALITY; WATER-SOLUBLE SALTS;

CRUDE PETROLEUM;

COMPUTATION THEORY; CRUDE PETROLEUM; DEHYDRATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SALT REMOVAL;

EID: 33645958914     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2006.01.004     Document Type: Article

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