Real-time control of a semi-industrial fed-batch evaporative crystallizer using different direct optimization strategies

AIChE Journal

Volumn 57, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1557-1569

  Mesbah, Ali ^a,b   Huesman, Adrie E M ^a   Kramer, Herman J M ^b   Nagy, Zoltan K ^c   Van den Hof, Paul M J ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Batch crystallization; Dynamic optimization; Model based control; Nonlinear moment model; Real time implementation; Seeding; State estimation

Indexed keywords

BATCH CRYSTALLIZATION; DYNAMIC OPTIMIZATION; MODEL-BASED CONTROL; NONLINEAR MOMENT MODEL; REAL-TIME IMPLEMENTATION; SEEDING;

CRYSTAL GROWTH; CRYSTALLIZATION; CRYSTALLIZERS; ESTIMATION; OPTIMIZATION; PRODUCTIVITY; REAL TIME CONTROL; STATE ESTIMATION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 79953814241     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.12366     Document Type: Article

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