Model-based design of a plant-wide control strategy for a continuous pharmaceutical plant

AIChE Journal

Volumn 59, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 3671-3685

  Lakerveld, Richard ^a   Benyahia, Brahim ^a   Braatz, Richard D ^a   Barton, Paul I ^a  

^a Massachusetts Institute of Technology Cambridge   (United States)

Author keywords

Continuous pharmaceutical manufacturing; Design (process simulation); Plant wide control; Process control; Sensitivity analysis

Indexed keywords

CONTINUOUS PHARMACEUTICAL MANUFACTURING; CONTROL OBJECTIVES; DESIGN (PROCESS SIMULATION); HIERARCHICAL DECOMPOSITIONS; PARAMETRIC SENSITIVITY; PERSISTENT DISTURBANCES; PHARMACEUTICAL PROCESS; PLANTWIDE CONTROL;

INDUSTRIAL APPLICATIONS; PILOT PLANTS; PROCESS CONTROL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

DESIGN;

EID: 84884412603     PISSN: 00011541     EISSN: 15475905     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aic.14107     Document Type: Article

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