Book chapter
Control of Polymerization Processes
The Control Handbook, pp 345-368
2011
Abstract
With an annual worldwide production well in excess of 100 million metric tons, synthetic polymers
constitute a significant part of the modern chemical process industry. Polymer reactors-operated in
continuous, batch, or semibatch mode-are therefore important processing units, but there are unique
problems associated with controlling them effectively. The most significant characteristics of polymer
reactors that make them one of the most challenging units to model, control, and optimize, are discussed
in this chapter; we also provide a survey of the strategies that have been proposed, and those that have
been successfully employed in industrial practice.
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Details
- Title
- Control of Polymerization Processes
- Creators
- Masoud Soroush - Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Contributors
- William S Levine (Editor)
- Publication Details
- The Control Handbook, pp 345-368
- Publisher
- CRC Press
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Chemical and Biological Engineering
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85137480870
- Other Identifier
- 991019173440204721