Model Reduction in Chemical Engineering: Case studies applied to process analysis, design and operation

During the last decades, models have become widely used for supporting a broad range of chemical engineering activities, such as product and process design and development, process monitoring and control, real time optimization of plant operation or supply chain management. Although tremendous advancements continue to take place in the...

Model-Based Control of Industrial Batch Crystallizers: Experiments on Enhanced Controllability by Seeding Actuation

Crystallization is one of the oldest separation and purification techniques. Batch crystallizers are widely used in production of fine chemicals, food ingredients, specialty chemicals, and active pharmaceutical ingredients. Control of the crystalline material properties is a challenging task due to complexity and nonlinearity of batch...