Control of integrated processes: A case study on reactive distillation in a medium-scale pilot plant

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 15, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 863-881

  Völker, Marten ^a   Sonntag, Christian ^a   Engell, Sebastian ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Controller order reduction; Model uncertainty; Process control; Reactive distillation; Robust control; System identification

Indexed keywords

IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PILOT PLANTS; PROCESS CONTROL; ROBUST CONTROL;

CONTROLLER ORDER REDUCTION; MEDIUM-SCALE PILOT PLANT; MODEL UNCERTAINTY; MULTIVARIABLE CONTROLLER; REACTIVE DISTILLATION COLUMN;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MULTIVARIABLE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PILOT PLANTS; PROCESS CONTROL; ROBUST CONTROL;

EID: 34247137787     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2006.03.002     Document Type: Article

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