The increasingly aggressive global competition for the production of higher quality polymer
products at lower costs, along with a general trend away from new capital investments in the …

The measurement and control of polymerization reactors is very challenging due to the
complexity of the physical mechanisms and polymerization kinetics. In these reactors many …

A major difficulty affecting the control of product quality in industrial polymerization reactors
is the lack of suitable on‐line polymer property measurements. In this article a scheme is …

This paper presents a theoretical and experimental analysis of theopen-and closed-loop
optimal control of a batch reactor for the solution polymerization of methyl methacrylate. A …

Online monitoring of polymerization reactions is not only important due to the high
exothermic nature of most polymerization systems; the data gained also provides …

Monitoring of polymerization variables is necessary to fully implement advanced closedloop
control strategies and to ensure the consistent, safe and optimal production of polymeric …

Polymerization reactors usually exhibit complex nonlinear dynamic behavior because of the
complexity of the physicochemical interactions and the kinetics of the polymerization …

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 …

The goal of algorithmic statistical process control is to reduce predictable quality variations
using feedback and feedforward techniques and then monitor the complete system to detect …

Integrated multivariable process control can have a significant strategic impact on polymer
plant operability and economics. Polymer manufacturers face increasing pressures for …