Molecular reconstruction of complex hydrocarbon mixtures: An application of principal component analysis

AIChE Journal

Volumn 56, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3174-3188

  Pyl, Steven P ^a   Van Geem, Kevin M ^a   Reyniers, Marie Françoise ^a   Marin, Guy B ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Artificial neural network; Fundamental kinetic modeling; Molecular reconstruction; Principal component analysis; Process simulation; Shannon entropy

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; FUNDAMENTAL KINETIC MODELING; MOLECULAR RECONSTRUCTION; PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; PROCESS SIMULATIONS; SHANNON ENTROPY;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISTILLATION; ENTROPY; HYDROCARBONS; IGNEOUS ROCKS; LINEAR REGRESSION; NAPHTHAS; NEURAL NETWORKS;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 78349249757     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12224     Document Type: Article

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