Collect. Czech. Chem. Commun.
1991, 56, 2107-2141
https://doi.org/10.1135/cccc19912107
Large qualitative models of complex chemical and bioengineering processes
Mirko Dohnal
Department of Chemical and Food Engineering, Technical University, 616 69 Brno
Abstract
Qualitative model is a theoretical background of commonsense. Complex qualitative models can have prohibitively many solutions (qualitative states). Therefore a qualitative analogy of such classical quantitative tools as e.g. the decomposition is developed. Practical applications of decomposition principle is nearly always ad hoc. Therefore two case studies are presented in details, a chemical process (mixer, chemical reactor, separator) and an anaerobic fermentor.
