A control perspective on process intensification in dividing-wall columns

Chemical Engineering and Processing: Process Intensification

Volumn 50, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 281-292

  Kiss, Anton A ^a   Bildea, Costin Sorin ^b  

^a AKZO NOBEL CENTRAL RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY POLITEHNICA OF BUCHAREST   (Romania)

Author keywords

Control strategies; Dividing wall column; LQG; LSDP; MPC; Petlyuk; PID; Synthesis

Indexed keywords

DISTILLATION; DISTILLATION COLUMNS; ELECTRIC CONTROL EQUIPMENT; ENERGY CONSERVATION; INVESTMENTS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; PROPORTIONAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; THREE TERM CONTROL SYSTEMS;

ADVANCED CONTROL STRATEGY; CONTROL STRATEGIES; DIVIDING WALL COLUMNS; LSDP; MULTI-LOOP PID CONTROLLER; PERSISTENT DISTURBANCES; PETLYUK; PROCESS INTENSIFICATION;

CONTROLLERS;

EID: 79953028161     PISSN: 02552701     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cep.2011.01.011     Document Type: Article

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