Publications by Michael Amrhein

On decoupling rate processes in chemical reaction systems - Methods and applications

Dominique Bonvin, Julien Léo Billeter, Michael Amrhein, Diogo Filipe Mateus Rodrigues

Models of chemical reaction systems can be complex as they need to include information regarding the reactions and the mass and heat transfers. The commonly used state variables, namely, concentrations and temperatures, express the interplay between many p ...

2018

Fast Estimation of Plant Steady State for Imperfectly Known Dynamic Systems, with Application to Real-Time Optimization

Dominique Bonvin, Julien Léo Billeter, Michael Amrhein, Diogo Filipe Mateus Rodrigues

2018

Concept and Applications of Extents in Chemical Reaction Systems

Dominique Bonvin, Julien Léo Billeter, Michael Amrhein, Sriniketh Srinivasan, Diogo Filipe Mateus Rodrigues

Models of chemical reaction systems can be quite complex as they typically include information regarding the reactions, the various transfers of heat and mass, as well as the effects of the inlet and outlet flows. It is well known that a linear transformat ...

2017

Constrained multi-rate state estimator incorporating delayed measurements

Dominique Bonvin, Michael Amrhein, Sriniketh Srinivasan

Frequent and accurate concentration estimates are important for the on-line control and optimization of chemical reaction systems. Such estimates can be obtained using state estimation methods that fuse frequent (fast) delay-free on-line measurements with ...

IEEE2017

ALS Scheme using Extent-based Constraints for the Analysis of Chemical Reaction Systems

Dominique Bonvin, Julien Léo Billeter, Michael Amrhein

Multivariate curve resolution via alternating least squares (ALS) is used to resolve the concentration profiles C and the pure component spectra E of S species from the multivariate absorbance data A, assuming the bilinear model ...

2016

Fast Estimation of Plant Steady State, with Application to Static RTO

Dominique Bonvin, Julien Léo Billeter, Michael Amrhein, Diogo Filipe Mateus Rodrigues

Experimental assessment or prediction of plant steady state is important for many applications in the area of modeling and operation of continuous processes. For example, the iterative implementation of static real-time optimization requires reaching stead ...

2016

Incremental Identification of Reaction Systems - A Comparison between Rate-based and Extent-based Approaches

Dominique Bonvin, Michael Amrhein, Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt

An incremental identification approach for determining the kinetics of homogeneous reaction systems from transient concentration measurements has been developed in previous work (Marquardt, W. Chemical Engineering Research and Design 83(A6), 561–573, 2005) ...

Elsevier2012

Minimal State Representation for Open Fluid-Fluid Reaction Systems

Dominique Bonvin, Philippe Müllhaupt, Michael Amrhein, Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt

Reaction systems are typically represented by first-principles models that describe the evolution of the states (typically concentrations, volume and temperature) by means of conservation equations of differential nature and constitutive equations of algeb ...

Ieee Computer Soc2012

On multivariate calibration with unlabeled data

Dominique Bonvin, Michael Amrhein, Pamandeep Singh Gujral

In principal component regression (PCR) and partial least-squares regression (PLSR), the use of unlabeled data, in addition to labeled data, helps stabilize the latent subspaces in the calibration step, typically leading to a lower prediction error. A non- ...

Wiley-Blackwell2011

Incremental Identification of Reaction and Mass-Transfer Kinetics Using the Concept of Extents

Dominique Bonvin, Michael Amrhein, Nirav Pravinbhai Bhatt

This paper proposes a variation of the incremental approach to identify reaction and mass-transfer kinetics (rate expressions and the corresponding rate parameters) from concentration measurements for both homogeneous and gas-liquid reaction systems. This ...

2011