Automatic load change system of cryogenic air separation process

Separation and Purification Technology

Volumn 81, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 451-465

  Xu, Zuhua ^a   Zhao, Jun ^a   Chen, Xi ^a   Shao, Zhijiang ^a   Qian, Jixin ^a   Zhu, Lingyu ^b   Zhou, Zhiyong ^c   Qin, Haizhong ^d  

^a STATE KEY LABORATORY OF INDUSTRIAL CONTROL TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (China)

^c Hangzhou Hangyang Co Ltd   (China)

^d Gas Supply Company of Nanjing   (China)

Author keywords

Automatic load change; Homotopy based backtracking; Nonlinear model predictive control; Operating trajectory LPV model; Steady state optimization

Indexed keywords

CRYOGENICS; MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; NONLINEAR SYSTEMS; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; OPTIMIZATION; SEPARATION;

HOMOTOPIES; LOAD CHANGE; LPV MODELS; NONLINEAR MODEL PREDICTIVE CONTROL; STEADY-STATE OPTIMIZATION; HOMOTOPY-BASED BACKTRACKING;

SEPARATION; PREDICTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 84865745193     PISSN: 13835866     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seppur.2011.08.024     Document Type: Article

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