On-Line Process Monitoring, Control and Supervision for an Industrial Polymerization Process

MT Vester - IFAC Proceedings Volumes, 1992 - Elsevier
In industrial processes many key process variables (like conversions, selectivi ties,
concentrations, viscosities etc.) can not be measured adequately (accurately and …

On-line parameter estimation in a continuous polymerization process

A Sirohi, KY Choi - Industrial & engineering chemistry research, 1996 - ACS Publications
A large number of high activity catalysts are used to produce different grades of polymers in
a continuous olefin polymerization reactor. Often the transition from one grade to another is …

On-line estimation and control of a continuous stirred tank polymerization reactor

KJ Kim, KY Choi - Journal of Process Control, 1991 - Elsevier
The extended Kalman filter has been applied to a continuous stirred tank styrene
polymerization reactor for the on-line estimation of state and control of polymer properties …

Estimation and control of continuous stirred tank polymerization reactors

KJ Kim, KY Choi - 1990 American Control Conference, 1990 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
The extended Kalman filter has been applied to a continuous styrene polymerization
process with mixed initiators for the on-line state estimation and control. Two time scale filter …

Real-time estimation of the chain length distribution in a polymerization reactor

H Schuler, Z Suzhen - Chemical engineering science, 1985 - Elsevier
The method of Kalman filtering has been used to obtain on-line state estimates of a batch
styrene polymerization reactor. The temperatures of the plant and the refractive index of the …

On-line monitoring and control of a batch polymerization reactor

TJ Crowley, KY Choi - Journal of Process Control, 1996 - Elsevier
An experimental and theoretical study has been carried out for on-line estimation and
control of a batch reactor for solution polymerization of methyl methacrylate. The main …

Parameter estimation in extended Kalman filters for quality control in polymerization reactors

D Semino, M Morretta, C Scali - Computers & chemical engineering, 1996 - Elsevier
The issue of parameter estimation in Extended Kalman Filters is addressed in this paper. It is
shown that the use of parameters as additional system states is appropriate whenever there …

Real-time estimation of polymer properties in an industrial polyethylene reactor

TW Karjala, H Meerdink… - Proceedings of the 1997 …, 1997 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In this paper, we describe and present results from the online, real time implementation of
polymer property estimation techniques for an industrial polymerization reactor. We use …

Control of the quality of polymer products in continuous reactors: comparison of performance of state estimators with and without updating of parameters

C Scali, M Morretta, D Semino - Journal of Process Control, 1997 - Elsevier
In the paper the control of the product quality in polymerization reactors is analysed in the
presence of persistent perturbations (unmodeled disturbances, modeling errors), as met in …

Nonlinear estimation and control: applications to polymer reactors.

RK Mutha - 1997 - elibrary.ru
The aim of this work is the development and implementation of industry-relevant model-
based estimation and control algorithms for complex chemical processes. One of the major …