Simple control scheme for batch time minimization of exothermic semibatch polymerizations

Industrial and Engineering Chemistry Research

Volumn 52, Issue 17, 2013, Pages 5906-5920

  Finkler, Tiago F ^a,b   Lucia, Sergio ^a   Dogru, Melik B ^a   Engell, Sebastian ^a  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b EVONIK INDUSTRIES AG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATCH REACTORS; CONTROLLERS; MONOMERS; POLYMERIZATION; TEMPERATURE CONTROL;

BENCH-MARK PROBLEMS; HEATING AND COOLING; MODEL-BASED CONTROLLER; POLYMERIZATION PROCESS; POLYMERIZATION REACTORS; PROCESS PRODUCTIVITY; REACTION TEMPERATURE; SEMI-BATCH POLYMERIZATION;

QUALITY CONTROL;

EID: 84877040125     PISSN: 08885885     EISSN: 15205045     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1021/ie302321k     Document Type: Article

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