Mitigation of energy intensity of an industrial off-gas cleaning system using process engineering solutions

Journal of Cleaner Production

Volumn 17, Issue 16, 2009, Pages 1512-1525

  de Araujo, Antonio C B ^a   Brito, Romildo P ^a   Shang, Helen ^b  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF CAMPINA GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b LAURENTIAN UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Control structure; Controlled variable selection; Energy intensity; Off gas system; Optimization; Smelter furnace

Indexed keywords

CONTROL STRUCTURE; CONTROLLED VARIABLE SELECTION; ENERGY INTENSITY; OFF-GAS SYSTEM; SMELTER FURNACE;

AIR CLEANERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION LANGUAGES; DISTURBANCE REJECTION; ENERGY UTILIZATION; ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; FURNACES; GAS EMISSIONS; GAS TURBINES; INDUSTRIAL EMISSIONS; INDUSTRIAL HYGIENE; INTAKE SYSTEMS; LEAKAGE (FLUID); NICKEL SMELTING; OPTIMIZATION; VENTILATION EXHAUSTS;

STRUCTURAL DESIGN;

EID: 69249229586     PISSN: 09596526     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2009.05.014     Document Type: Article

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