Steady-State Modeling and Control of Molecular Weight Distributions in a Styrene Polymerization Process Based on B-Spline Neural Networks

  • Jinfang Zhang
  • Hong Yue
Part of the Lecture Notes in Computer Science book series (LNCS, volume 4491)

Abstract

The B-spline neural networks are used to model probability density function (PDF) with least square algorithm, the controllers are designed accordingly. Both the modeling and control methods are tested with molecular weight distribution (MWD) through simulation.

Keywords

Probability Density Function Control Input Molecular Weight Distribution Styrene Polymerization Single Input Single Output 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Jinfang Zhang
    • 1
  • Hong Yue
    • 1
  1. 1.Department of Automation North China Electric Power University Beijing, Beijing 102206 P.R. China, Manchester Interdisciplinary Biocentre, The University of Manchester, 131 Princess street, Manchester M1 7NDUK

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