The Analysis of Chemical Engineering Process Plants and their Models Represented by Networks
Chemical process plants can be interpreted as networks where energy mass and momentum are exchanged. Therefore, they can be represented as such using graph theory. This work presents a decomposition methodology that allows to conceptually deconstruct chemical process plants and their models to be re...
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| author | Juan B. Restrepo Hector A. Forero Carlos Ariel Cardona Alzate |
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| description | Chemical process plants can be interpreted as networks where energy mass and momentum are exchanged. Therefore, they can be represented as such using graph theory. This work presents a decomposition methodology that allows to conceptually deconstruct chemical process plants and their models to be represented by networks. By the selection of minimum constituent units of the plant, it is possible to describe the interdependencies among those minimum units. This procedure allows the correct representation of process plants as networks along with a detailed analysis of them. Using network metrics such as centrality measures, it was possible to analyze, as an example, the HDA process plant under two selected plantwide control strategies, allowing the identification of its more important units and controllers. This permitted an insight of how plantwide control strategies responded to perturbations from a qualitative point of view. It was also possible to establish the main coincidences and discrepancies between the selected plantwide control strategies. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-d84792bb04b143dba38a91d4e5a342332022-12-22T04:17:57ZengAIDIC Servizi S.r.l.Chemical Engineering Transactions2283-92162018-08-017010.3303/CET1870014The Analysis of Chemical Engineering Process Plants and their Models Represented by NetworksJuan B. RestrepoHector A. ForeroCarlos Ariel Cardona AlzateChemical process plants can be interpreted as networks where energy mass and momentum are exchanged. Therefore, they can be represented as such using graph theory. This work presents a decomposition methodology that allows to conceptually deconstruct chemical process plants and their models to be represented by networks. By the selection of minimum constituent units of the plant, it is possible to describe the interdependencies among those minimum units. This procedure allows the correct representation of process plants as networks along with a detailed analysis of them. Using network metrics such as centrality measures, it was possible to analyze, as an example, the HDA process plant under two selected plantwide control strategies, allowing the identification of its more important units and controllers. This permitted an insight of how plantwide control strategies responded to perturbations from a qualitative point of view. It was also possible to establish the main coincidences and discrepancies between the selected plantwide control strategies.https://www.cetjournal.it/index.php/cet/article/view/444 |
| spellingShingle | Juan B. Restrepo Hector A. Forero Carlos Ariel Cardona Alzate The Analysis of Chemical Engineering Process Plants and their Models Represented by Networks Chemical Engineering Transactions |
| title | The Analysis of Chemical Engineering Process Plants and their Models Represented by Networks |
| title_full | The Analysis of Chemical Engineering Process Plants and their Models Represented by Networks |
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| title_full_unstemmed | The Analysis of Chemical Engineering Process Plants and their Models Represented by Networks |
| title_short | The Analysis of Chemical Engineering Process Plants and their Models Represented by Networks |
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