Chemical Engineering Journal, Vol.84, No.3, 309-314, 2001
Reconciliation of censored measurements in chemical processes: an alternative approach
The importance of considering the censoring of measured data in the reconciliation of process flow rates has been shown in a previous paper [Chem. Eng. Sci. 52 (17) (1997) 3047]. The purpose of the present paper is to introduce a new technique for carrying out the actual reconciliation procedure and compare its significance and performance with those of previous methods. A numerical example shows how nontrivial differences are to be expected.