Optimal selection of sensors for state estimation in a reactive distillation process

Journal of Process Control

Volumn 19, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1024-1035

  Sumana, C ^a   Venkateswarlu, Ch ^a  

^a INDIAN INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL TECHNOLOGY   (India)

Author keywords

Observability gramian; Reactive distillation; Sensor configuration

Indexed keywords

COMPOSITION ESTIMATIONS; COVARIANCE MATRICES; DEGREE OF OBSERVABILITIES; DYNAMIC STATE; GRAMIAN; HIGH-DIMENSIONAL SYSTEMS; MULTI COMPONENTS; OBSERVABILITY GRAMIAN; OPTIMAL SELECTIONS; PROCESS BEHAVIORS; PROCESS MEASUREMENTS; PROCESS MODELS; REACTIVE DISTILLATION; REACTIVE DISTILLATION COLUMNS; REACTIVE DISTILLATION PROCESS; RIGOROUS EVALUATIONS; SENSITIVE MEASUREMENTS; SENSOR CONFIGURATION; SENSOR SELECTIONS;

COVARIANCE MATRIX; DISTILLATION; ESTIMATION; OBSERVABILITY; SENSORS; STATE ESTIMATION;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 65649127280     PISSN: 09591524     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jprocont.2009.01.003     Document Type: Article

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