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In distillation column control, secondary measurements such as temperatures and flows are widely used to infer product composition. This paper addresses the development of nonlinear static estimators using secondary measurements for estimating product compositions of distillation columns. An open equationbased optimization problem, which minimizes the differences between the measured outputs and the estimated outputs, has been formulated and solved by using the nonlinear program (NLP) solver, MINOS5. It is shown that the proposed nonlinear estimator is robust and more powerful than the conventional PLS (Partial-Least-Squares) estimator.
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Shin, J., Lee, M. & Park, S. Nonlinear static composition estimator for distillation columns using open equation-based nonlinear programming. Korean J. Chem. Eng. 15, 667–670 (1998). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02698996
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