Author(s)

B.G. Wang, X. XU, A.R. Wright and A.J. Morris

Abstract

AUTOMATIC SYNTHESIS OF CONTROL STEPS IN BATCH PROCESS OPERATIONS B. G. Wang11, X. XU1, A. R. Wright2 and A. J. Morris3 1. Dept. of Chem. Eng., Tianjin University, 300072, P. R. China Email: xexu@tju.edu.cn 2. BatchCAD Ltd, St Thomas Street Stables, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 4LE, UK 3. Dept. of Chem. and Process Eng., University of Newcastle upon Tyne, NE1 7RU, UK ABSTRACT: In general, a batch chemical plant is used to produce multiple products and its key characteristics is flexibility. The flexibility means that the same processing equipment units may be employed to produce different products or the same product may be produced in different processing equipment units. In order to produce a desired product, the processing requirements specified in the product recipe must be converted to a set of control steps or operating procedures. In practice, this kind of tedious and time-consuming work is done by the process engineers based on their experience. A three-step synthesis strategy for the auto

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