Plant-wide control: Methodologies and applications

Reviews in Chemical Engineering

Volumn 25, Issue 5-6, 2009, Pages 297-337

  Vasudevan, Suraj ^a   Murthy Konda, N V S N ^a,b   Rangaiah, G P ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chemical processes; Classification of methodologies; Control degrees of freedom; Performance assessment criteria; Plant Wide control; Reactor SeparatorRecycle

Indexed keywords

MECHANICS;

CHEMICAL PROCESS; CONTROL DEGREES OF FREEDOM; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; PLANTWIDE CONTROL; REACTOR-SEPARATORRECYCLE;

DEGREES OF FREEDOM (MECHANICS);

EID: 77953947393     PISSN: 01678299     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/REVCE.2009.25.5-6.297     Document Type: Article

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