Model predictive control during the primary drying stage of lyophilisation

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 18, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 483-494

  Daraoui, N ^a,b   Dufour, P ^a,b   Hammouri, H ^a,b   Hottot, A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LYON 1   (France)

Author keywords

Chemical engineering; Drying; Heat and mass transfers; Lyophilisation; Model predictive control; Process control

Indexed keywords

CONTROL SOFTWARE; FEED-BACK LOOP; FROZEN LAYER; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER; HEAT AND MASS TRANSFERS; LYOPHILISATION; MODEL PARAMETERS; PARTIAL DIFFERENTIAL; PRIMARY DRYING;

CHEMICAL ENGINEERING; DIFFERENTIAL EQUATIONS; HEAT TRANSFER; MASS TRANSFER; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; QUALITY CONTROL; SUBLIMATION;

MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL;

EID: 77952291598     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.conengprac.2010.01.005     Document Type: Article

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