'Soft-sensor' for real-time monitoring of melt viscosity in polymer extrusion process

Proceedings of the IEEE Conference on Decision and Control

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 3469-3474

  Liu, Xueqin ^a   Li, Kang ^a   McAfee, Marion ^b   Deng, Jing ^a  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b Atlantic Technological University   (Ireland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EXTRUSION; FEEDBACK; IMPULSE RESPONSE; POLYMERS; RHEOMETERS; VISCOSITY; VISCOSITY MEASUREMENT;

CAPILLARY RHEOMETER; FEEDBACK STRUCTURE; FINITE IMPULSE RESPONSE MODEL; MEASUREMENT DELAYS; ONLINE ADAPTABILITY; REAL TIME MONITORING; REAL-TIME PREDICTION; VISCOSITY MODELING;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 79953137069     PISSN: 07431546     EISSN: 25762370     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/CDC.2010.5717800     Document Type: Conference Paper

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