Hybrid Modeling in Process Industries

The book is based on contributions of leading experts in the field and it covers both hybrid modeling fundamentals and their applications. The application part covers the utilization of hybrid modeling for typical process operation and design applications in industries such as chemical, petrochemical, biochemical, food and pharmaceutical process engineering.
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1. Benefits and challenges of hybrid modelling in the process industries: An introduction. 2. Hybrid Model Structures for Knowledge Integration. 3. Hybrid models and Experimental Design. 4. Hybrid model identification and discrimination with practical examples from the chemical industry. 5. Hybrid modeling of biochemical processes. 6. Hybrid modelling of petrochemical processes. 7. Implementation of hybrid neural models to predict the behaviour of food transformation and food waste valorisation processes. 8. Hybrid modelling of pharmaceutical processes and PAT.