Comparison of control strategies for dividing-wall columns

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 49, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 288-307

  Van Diggelen, Ruben C ^a,b   Kiss, Anton A ^a   Heemink, Arnold W ^b  

^a AKZO NOBEL CENTRAL RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED CONTROLLER; BINARY DISTILLATION COLUMNS; CONTROL ISSUES; CONTROL STRATEGIES; CONTROLLER SYNTHESIS; COUPLED COLUMN; FEED FLOW RATE; HIGH-ORDER CONTROLLERS; MULTILOOP; NOVEL DESIGN; OPERATING MODES; PERSISTENT DISTURBANCES; PRODUCT COMPOSITION; SETTLING TIME; TERNARY SEPARATIONS;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; BENZENE; BENZENE REFINING; CONTROLLABILITY; CONTROLLERS; DISTILLATION; DYNAMIC RESPONSE; OPERATING COSTS; TOLUENE; XYLENE;

DISTILLATION COLUMNS;

EID: 74249106181     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie9010673     Document Type: Article

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