Nonlinear model predictive control of a reactive distillation column

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 231-239

  Kawathekar, Rohit ^a   Riggs, James B ^a  

^a Texas Tech University   (United States)

Author keywords

Configuration selection; Nonlinear model predictive control; Process model mismatch; Reactive distillation

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PROCESS CONTROL;

CONFIGURATION SELECTION; NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL (NLMPC); ORTHOGONAL COLLOCATION; PROCESS/MODEL MISMATCH; REACTIVE DISTILLATION COLUMN;

PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

APPROXIMATION THEORY; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; FINITE ELEMENT METHOD; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NONLINEAR CONTROL SYSTEMS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 33750161265     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2006.07.004     Document Type: Article

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