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Emulsion copolymerization of styrene and butyl acrylate in the presence of a chain transfer agent. Part 2: parameters estimability and confidence regions

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posted on 2014-07-22, 13:55 authored by Brahim BenyahiaBrahim Benyahia, M. Abderrazak Latifi, Christian Fonteix, Fernand Pla
Accurate estimation of the model parameters is required to obtain reliable predictions of the products end-use properties. However, due to the mathematical model structure and/or to a possible lack of measurements, the estimation of some parameters may be impossible. This paper will focus on the case where the main limitations to the parameters estimability are their weak effect on the measured outputs or the correlation between the effects of two or more parameters. The objective of the method developed in this paper is to determine the subset of the most influencing parameters that can be estimated from the available experimental data, when the complete set of model parameters cannot be estimated. This approach has been applied to the mathematical model of the emulsion copolymerization of styrene and butyl acrylate, in the presence of n-dodecyl mercaptan as a chain transfer agent. In addition, a new approach is used to better assess the true confidence regions and evaluate the accuracy of the parameters estimates in more reliable way.

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School

  • Aeronautical, Automotive, Chemical and Materials Engineering

Department

  • Chemical Engineering

Published in

Chemical Engineering Science

Volume

90

Pages

110 - 118

Citation

BENYAHIA, B. ... et al, 2013. Emulsion copolymerization of styrene and butyl acrylate in the presence of a chain transfer agent. Part 2: parameters estimability and confidence regions. Chemical Engineering Science, 90, pp.110-118.

Publisher

© Elsevier

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Publication date

2013

Notes

This is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in Chemical Engineering Science. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published at: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ces.2012.12.013

ISSN

0009-2509

Language

  • en