Inferential sensors for estimation of polymer quality parameters: Industrial application of a PLS-based soft sensor for a LDPE plant

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 61, Issue 19, 2006, Pages 6372-6384

  Sharmin, Rumana ^a   Sundararaj, Uttandaraman ^a   Shah, Sirish ^a   Vande Griend, Larry ^b   Sun, Yi Jun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA   (Canada)

^b AT Plastics Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Melt index; Multivariate statistical analysis; Polymerization; Soft sensor; Statistical model; Viscosity

Indexed keywords

FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSORS; VISCOSITY;

MELT INDEX; MULTIVARIATE STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SOFT SENSOR; STATISTICAL MODEL;

COPOLYMERS;

COPOLYMERS; FREE RADICAL POLYMERIZATION; LOW DENSITY POLYETHYLENES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SENSORS; VISCOSITY;

EID: 33746991704     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2006.05.046     Document Type: Article

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