Overview of the Main Topics

A new chemical process may involve the production of innovative chemicals, the exploitation of a new raw material, or the revamping of an established process. Irrespective of those details, the process development is usually initiated with the assessment of a new chemical route from raw materials to products, a task which requires a sound chemical skill for the understanding of the reaction mechanism, and is concluded with the assessment of the operating protocols of the industrial plant, a task which requires a sound engineering skill for obtaining a satisfactory performance of the plant, in terms of safety of operations, quality of products, and productivity. 

Control and monitoring of the chemical reactor play a central role in this procedure, especially when batch operations are considered because of the intrinsic unsteady behavior and the nonlinear dynamics of the batch reactor. In order to meet such requirements, the following fundamental problems must be solved  

Caccavale et al., Control and Monitoring of Chemical Batch Reactors, Advances in Industrial Control, 

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The fundamentals of mobile radio engineering in connection with many practical examples and applications as well as an overview of the main topics involved can be found in Yacoub, M.D. 1993. Foundations of Mobile Radio Engineering. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL. 

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