Enhancing process insight in polymer extrusion by grey box modelling

Transactions of the Institute of Measurement & Control

Volumn 29, Issue 5, 2007, Pages 467-488

  McAfee, M ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

grey box modelling; polymer extnssion

Indexed keywords

EXTRUSION;

CONTROL DISTURBANCES; FIRST PRINCIPLE MODELS; GENERALIZATION ABILITY; GREY-BOX MODELLING; INHERENT INSTABILITY; MODELLING TECHNIQUES; POLYMER EXTNSSION; PROCESS INSTABILITIES;

POLYMERS;

EID: 46349102311     PISSN: 01423312     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0142331207079815     Document Type: Article

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