Model based control of a liquid swelling constrained batch reactor subject to recipe uncertainties

Chemical Engineering Journal

Volumn 153, Issue 1-3, 2009, Pages 151-158

  Simon, Levente L ^a   Nagy, Zoltan K ^b   Hungerbuhler, Konrad ^a  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Batch; Dynamic simulation; Multiphase flow; Multiphase reactors; Optimization; Process control

Indexed keywords

BATCH; BATCH PROCESS; BATCH RECIPE; CONTROL PERFORMANCE; CONTROL SIMULATION; DYNAMIC SIMULATION; FAST DYNAMICS; FAST RESPONSE; INDUSTRIAL BATCH REACTOR; INITIAL VALUES; LARGE-SCALE PROBLEM; MODEL BASED CONTROLS; MULTIPHASE REACTORS; NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING PROBLEM; NUMERICAL ALGORITHMS; OPEN LOOPS; OPTIMAL CONTROL PROBLEM; OPTIMAL OPERATION CONDITIONS; OPTIMIZATION ENVIRONMENTS; OPTIMIZATION SOFTWARE; SAFETY CONSTRAINT; SEQUENTIAL QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; SHOOTING TECHNIQUE; SMALL SAMPLING;

BATCH DATA PROCESSING; BATCH REACTORS; CONTROLLERS; FLOW SIMULATION; FLUID DYNAMICS; LIQUIDS; MULTIPHASE FLOW; OPTIMIZATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; QUADRATIC PROGRAMMING; QUALITY CONTROL; SEQUENTIAL SWITCHING; SIMULATORS;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 67651083558     PISSN: 13858947     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cej.2009.06.003     Document Type: Article

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