This paper presents a thorough review of control technologies that have been applied to
wastewater treatment processes in the environmental engineering regime in the past four …

The online use of first-principles models (FPMs) to support process operations has been
practised in the chemical and petroleum industry for over 40 years. FPMs can encapsulate a …

At publication, The Control Handbook immediately became the definitive resource that
engineers working with modern control systems required. Among its many accolades, that …

Control technology permeates every aspect of our lives. We rely on them to perform a wide
variety of tasks without giving much thought to the origins of the technology or how it became …

The available on‐line and in‐line sensor technologies developed for polymerization
reactors from 1990 until today are discussed and critically reviewed. About 600 references …

The problem of driving a batch process to a specified product quality using data‐driven
model predictive control (MPC) is described. To address the problem of unavailability of …

A survey of the most recent papers regarding the advanced control of polymerization
reactors is carried out. Special attention is focused on optimal control theory, nonlinear …

An on‐line state‐estimation design for multiinput multioutput nonlinear plants, either
observable or detectable, is presented. The design considers a stage of analysis, in which …

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

In this chapter, the basic theory of feedback linearization is presented and issues of
particular relevance to process control applications are discussed. Two fundamental …