Pulp and Paper Industry Applications

Covers paper and pulp industries.

"Intelligent Control for Paper Machine Moisture Control", T.Murphy, S.Yurkovich, S-Chin Chen, IEEE Conf on Control Applications, 1996. Presents an Internal Model Control strategy that copes with process nonlinearities through a Fuzzy Supervisor. The control implemented on an actual paper machine and improvements shown.
"Control of Paper Machine Headbox with Saturating Inputs", Jonas Ohr.
"Advanced Process Modelling and Control in Paper Making", Dr Hong-Wang. Measurement and Control, Vol 32, Oct 1999. This special feature contains four practical papers covering on-line wet-end analysers, optical density measurement, de-watering measurement and non-linear optimal control of wet-end paper formation.

http://www.ncl.ac.uk/cpact/paper.html - project being carried out by Newcastle University on the modelling and control of Wet End Chemistry in Paper Manufacturing Plants.
http://www.pulpandpaper.net/ - on-line information for the Pulp and Paper Industry
Power Spectrum Solves A Paper Mill Problem - presents the investigation of a 16 min undesirable cycle in newsprint machine.
PID Tuning and Process Optimization Increased Performance and Efficiency of a Paper Machine - a good qualitative discussion giving the economics of control system improvements.