Integrated control and process design during optimal polymer grade transition operations

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 32, Issue 11, 2008, Pages 2823-2837

  Flores Tlacuahuac, Antonio ^a   Biegler, Lorenz T ^b  

^a UNIVERSIDAD IBEROAMERICANA   (Mexico)

^b CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Control; Grade transition; Mixed Integer Dynamic Optimization; Optimization; Polymerization reactors; Scheduling

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; CHEMICAL REACTIONS; CHLORINE COMPOUNDS; CONTROL THEORY; INTEGER PROGRAMMING; INTEGRATED CONTROL; MOLECULAR WEIGHT; MOLECULAR WEIGHT DISTRIBUTION; MONOMERS; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMIZATION; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; PROCESS DESIGN; PROCESS ENGINEERING; PRODUCTION CONTROL; SOLUTIONS; TECHNOLOGY; WEIGHT CONTROL;

CHEMICAL-; CLOSED LOOPS; CONTROL; CONTROL STRUCTURES; CONTROLLER PARAMETERS; CPU TIME; DESIGN FORMULATION; DESIGN PROBLEMS; DISCRETIZATION; DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION PROBLEMS; GRADE TRANSITION; HIGHLY NONLINEAR; INTEGER NONLINEAR PROGRAM; INTEGRATED DESIGNS; MIXED-INTEGER DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION; MONOMER CONVERSIONS; NON-CONVEX OPTIMIZATION; OPEN LOOPS; OPTIMAL SOLUTIONS; OPTIMAL STEADY STATES; OPTIMAL TRAJECTORIES; POLYMER GRADES; POLYMER MOLECULAR WEIGHT; POLYMERIZATION REACTORS; REACTOR DESIGNS; SCHEDULING; SIMULTANEOUS DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION; SOLUTION TIME; SYSTEM COMPLEXITY;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 50549104687     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.compchemeng.2007.12.005     Document Type: Article

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