Control of Polymerization Reactors / Edition 1

by Joseph Schork

Overview

This reference and text provides an in-depth description of developments in control techniques and their application to polymerization reactors and offers important introductory background information on polymerization reaction engineering.;Discussing modelling, identification, linear, nonlinear and multivariable schemes, Control of Polymerization Reactors: presents all available techniques that can be used to control reactors properly for optimal performance; shows how to manipulate pivotal variables that affect reactor control; examines methods for deriving dynamic process models to improve reactor efficiency; reviews reactor control problems and points out end-use properties; supplies methods for measuring process variables, and ways to estimate variables that can't be measured; and explains how single-input, single-output (SISO) strategies can be effectively used for control.;Filled with illustrative examples to clarify concepts, including more than 730 figures, tables and equations, Control of Polymerization Reactors is intended for use as a reference for chemical, process development, process design, research and development, control systems, and polymer engineers; and polymer chemists and physicists; as well as a text for upper-level undergraduate and graduate students in polymerization reactor control courses.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780367402433
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/19/2019
Pages:	376
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

F. Joseph Schork, Pradeep B. Deshpande, Kenneth W. leffew

Table of Contents

Introduction to polymerization; kinetic analysis of polymerization; polymerization reaction engineering; heterogeneous polymerization; framework of the control problem; measurement and estimation of process variables; process modelling and identification; single-loop reactor control strategies; multivariable control of polymerization reactors; nonlinear control strategies for polymerization reactors; introduction to polymer processing, Vikas M. Nadkarni.