Set point identification and robustness testing of electrostatic separation processes

IEEE Transactions on Industry Applications

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 618-626

  Medles, Karim ^a   Tilmatine, Amar ^a   Miloua, Farid ^a   Bendaoud, Abdelber ^a   Younes, Mohamed ^a   Rahli, Mostéfa ^b   Dascalescu, Lucian ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIDI BEL ABBES   (Algeria)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DES SCIENCES ET DE LA TECHNOLOGIE D ORAN MOHAMED BOUDIAF   (Algeria)

^c University Institute of Technology   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

Author keywords

Design of experiments; Electrostatic separation; Experimental models; Robustness testing

Indexed keywords

DESIGN OF EXPERIMENTS; IDENTIFICATION (CONTROL SYSTEMS); INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; INDUSTRIAL WASTES; PROCESS CONTROL; ROBUSTNESS (CONTROL SYSTEMS); EXPERIMENTS;

EXPERIMENTAL MODELS; FEED-RATE VALUES; ROBUSTNESS TESTING; ROLL-SPEED;

ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATORS;

ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION; ELECTROSTATIC SEPARATION PROCESS; EXPERIMENTAL MODELS; ONE-FACTOR-AT-A-TIME EXPERIMENTS; OPTIMAL OPERATING CONDITIONS; ROBUSTNESS TESTING; THREE-STEP STRATEGIES; TWO-FACTORIAL DESIGNS;

EID: 34249901278     PISSN: 00939994     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIA.2007.895683     Document Type: Article

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