Steady-state multiplicity and its implications on the control of an ideal reactive distillation column

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 47, Issue 8, 2008, Pages 2778-2787

  Pavan Kumar, M V ^a   Kaistha, Nitin ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY KANPUR   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMAL EFFECTS;

REACTIVE DISTILLATION (RD) COLUMN; STEADY-STATE MULTIPLICITY;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

BIFURCATION (MATHEMATICS); CLOSED LOOP CONTROL SYSTEMS; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; TEMPERATURE CONTROL; THERMAL EFFECTS;

EID: 43449120967     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie701720r     Document Type: Article

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