Control of Polymerization Reactors

This reference and text provides an in-depth description of developments in control techniques and their application to polymerization reactors and offers important introductory background information on polymerization reaction engineering. ;Discussing modelling identification linear nonlinear and multivariable schemes Control of Polymerization Reactors: presents all available techniques that can be used to control reactors properly for optimal performance; shows how to manipulate pivotal variables that affect reactor control; examines methods for deriving dynamic process models to improve reactor efficiency; reviews reactor control problems and points out end-use properties; supplies methods for measuring process variables and ways to estimate variables that can't be measured; and explains how single-input single-output (SISO) strategies can be effectively used for control. ;Filled with illustrative examples to clarify concepts including more than 730 figures tables and equations Control of Polymerization Reactors is intended for use as a reference for chemical process development process design research and development control systems and polymer engineers; and polymer chemists and physicists; as well as a text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in polymerization reactor control courses. Language: English