Fouling is an inevitable phenomenon that tends to change the dynamics of the heat
exchanger (HE). An accurate prediction model describing these varying HE dynamics is …

Heat exchangers are one of the most important thermal devices. Shell and tube heat
exchangers are the common types of heat exchangers and sustained a wide range of …

Nowadays process industries require accurate, efficient and flexible operation of the plants.
The need for development of innovative technologies for process modeling, dynamic …

The objective of this work is the development of DMC for a shell and tube heat exchanger
and to address the difficulties in tuning a DMC. Although the PID controller is widely used for …

B-Melter is a process which is very difficult to control by classical means. The output (cane
juice) from the crusher is send to the pan house having sections namely A, B and C pans …

In this paper, a control-oriented model has been investigated for the evaporator in an
Organic Rankine Cycle (ORC) system. Due to the nonlinearity and uncertainty existed in the …

Throughout the last decades, control systems theory has thrived, promoting new areas of
development, especially for chemical and biological process engineering. Production …

Abstract Traditionally, the Recursive Least Squares (RLS) algorithm was used in the
Generalized Predictive Control (GPC) framework solely for model adaptation purposes. In …

In many industrial process and operations, shell and tube heat exchangers are one of the
most important thermal devices that sustained a wide range of operating temperature and …

I, Tigist Girma, hereby declare that this thesis is my own work towards in Partial Fulfillment of
the Requirements for the Degree of Masters of Arts in Human Resource Management and …