Performance analysis of three controllers for the polymerisation of styrene in a batch reactor

Chemical Product and Process Modeling

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2007, Pages

  Ekpo, Emmanuel E ^a   Mujtaba, Iqbal M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRADFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Batch polymerisation; Batch reactor control; Generic model control; Neural networks; Optimal reactor temperature

Indexed keywords

BATCH REACTORS; KINETICS; NEURAL NETWORKS; PARAMETERIZATION; POLYMERIZATION; STYRENE;

BATCH POLYMERIZATION; BATCH REACTOR CONTROL; GENERIC MODEL CONTROL; OPTIMAL REACTOR TEMPERATURE;

CONTROL EQUIPMENT;

EID: 38949163786     PISSN: 19342659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1934-2659.1014     Document Type: Article

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