Enhancing a smelter off-gas system using a plant-wide control design

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 3004-3013

  De Araujo, Antonio C B ^a   Shang, Helen ^a,b  

^a LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b School of Engineering   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A PLANTS; CONTROL STRUCTURES; FEEDBACK CONTROL STRUCTURES; GAS SYSTEMS; HAZARDOUS EMISSIONS; INDUSTRIAL PRACTICES; NON-LINEAR MODELS; OFF-GAS TREATMENTS; SYSTEMATIC CONTROLS; TOP DOWNS;

CALCINATION; DISTURBANCE REJECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; FEEDBACK CONTROL; GAS EMISSIONS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); ROBUST CONTROL; SMELTING; STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 65349145844     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie800254s     Document Type: Article

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