Modeling and optimization of a seeded suspension polymerization process

Chemical Engineering Science

Volumn 65, Issue 15, 2010, Pages 4350-4362

  Lin, Weijie ^a   Biegler, Lorenz T ^a   Jacobson, Annette M ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Dynamic optimization; Mathematical modeling; Parameter estimation; Particulate process; Suspension polymerization

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE MOLECULAR WEIGHT; DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION; FEEDING RATE; HYBRID APPROACH; KEY CONTROLLING FACTORS; MATHEMATICAL MODELING; MODELING AND OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER SUBSETS; PARTICLE GROWTH; PARTICULATE PROCESS; PILOT PLANT EXPERIMENTS; POLYMERIZATION RATES; POLYSTYRENE BEADS; SEEDED SUSPENSION POLYMERIZATION; SEMI-BATCH; SPECIALTY PRODUCTS; SUSPENSION POLYMERIZATION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; FEEDING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PILOT PLANTS; POLYMERIZATION; POLYMERS; POLYSTYRENES; SUSPENSIONS (COMPONENTS);

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 77953126571     PISSN: 00092509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ces.2010.03.052     Document Type: Article

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