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William L. Luyben

William L. Luyben

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Chemistry

D-Index
73
Citations
19969
World Ranking
4935
National Ranking
1546

Engineering and Technology

D-Index
74
Citations
21319
World Ranking
807
National Ranking
281

Overview

William L. Luyben is affiliated with Lehigh University in the United States, with a professional focus primarily in the field of Engineering. Their work encompasses a diverse array of subfields that include Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Biomedical Engineering, Computational Mechanics, and Electrical and Electronic Engineering.

The research topics explored by this scientist cover several areas related to process and system optimization. Key topics include Process Optimization and Integration, Advanced Control Systems Optimization, Innovative Microfluidic and Catalytic Techniques Innovation, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies, Heat Transfer and Optimization, Field-Flow Fractionation Techniques, and Extraction and Separation Processes.

William L. Luyben has contributed to research published in multiple scientific journals. Frequent publication venues consist of:

  • Computers & Chemical Engineering
  • Process Safety and Environmental Protection
  • Chemical Engineering and Processing - Process Intensification
  • Journal of Process Control
  • ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering

Recent publications by William L. Luyben include:

  • Importance of pressure-selection in pressure-swing distillation, 2021, Computers & Chemical Engineering
  • Comparison of additive and multiplicative feedforward control, 2022, Journal of Process Control
  • Control of a distillation column with side stripper and side rectifier, 2020, Process Safety and Environmental Protection

Frequent co-authors collaborating with William L. Luyben are:

  • Jonas Baltrušaitis
  • Guoqiang Cao
  • Theodore Riotto
  • Robert M. Handler
  • Yue Xiao

Best Publications

  • Process Modeling, Simulation and Control for Chemical Engineers

    William L. Luyben

  • Distillation Design and Control Using Aspen Simulation

    William L. Luyben

  • Simple method for tuning SISO controllers in multivariable systems

    William L. Luyben

  • Plantwide Process Control

    William L. Luyben

  • Use of Hammerstein Models in Identification of Nonlinear Systems

    Esref Eskinat;Stanley H. Johnson;William L. Luyben

  • Tuning PI controllers for integrator/dead time processes

    Bjorn D. Tyreus;William L. Luyben

  • Essentials of Process Control

    Michael L. Luyben;William L. Luyben

  • Reactive Distillation Design and Control

    William L. Luyben;Cheng-Ching Yu

  • Derivation of transfer functions for highly nonlinear distillation columns

    William L. Luyben

  • Plantwide Dynamic Simulators in Chemical Processing and Control

    William L Luyben

  • Comparison of extractive distillation and pressure-swing distillation for acetone/chloroform separation

    William L. Luyben

  • Practical Distillation Control

    William L. Luyben

  • Design and Control of Distillation Systems for Separating Azeotropes

    I-Lung Chien;William L. Luyben

  • An improved autotune identification method

    Wei Li;Esref Eskinat;William L. Luyben

  • Comparison of Extractive Distillation and Pressure-Swing Distillation for Acetone-Methanol Separation

    William L. Luyben

  • Plantwide control design procedure

    Michael L. Luyben;Bjorn D. Tyreus;William L. Luyben

  • New Control Structure for Divided-Wall Columns

    Hao Ling;William L. Luyben

  • Snowball effects in reactor/separator processes with recycle

    William L. Luyben

  • Chemical Reactor Design and Control

    William L. Luyben

  • Comparison of Alternative Control Structures for an Ideal Two-Product Reactive Distillation Column

    Muhammad Al-Arfaj;William L. Luyben

  • Design and Control of Distillation Systems for Separating Azeotropes: Luyben/Azeotropes Distillation

    William L. Luyben;I-Lung Chien

Frequent Co-Authors

I-Lung Chien
I-Lung Chien National Taiwan University
Christos Georgakis
Christos Georgakis Tufts University
Lyle H. Ungar
Lyle H. Ungar University of Pennsylvania
Jonas Baltrusaitis
Jonas Baltrusaitis Lehigh University
Sigurd Skogestad
Sigurd Skogestad Norwegian University of Science and Technology

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