Early Process Design Integrated with Control

EPIC - 2090

Keywords computer-aided process design, control systems, process control, process industries, simulation

Start Date: 01-FEB-89 / Duration: 36 months

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Objectives and Approach

The objective of this project is to develop tools and techniques to support an integrated design framework for the process industries embracing:

• early process design and instrumentation with overall system performance objectives
• simple control schemes for multivariable processes
• hierarchical control and steady-state process optimisation of large-scale industrial processes.

The principal tasks will be to:

• specify and develop methods and tools for early process design, for both well- and ill-defined process models, to enable the formulation of the appropriate conceptual, qualitative and quantitative framework within which the designer can evaluate early design options
• specify methods and tools addressing the optimisation and regulation of complex industrial processes
• specify and develop the required software infrastructure
• evaluate the validity of the integrated framework and of the methods and tools, and demonstrate their usefulness compared to existing tools.

CONTACT POINT

Mr Manos Larintzakis
INTRASOFT SA
Adrianiou Street 2
GR - 11525 ATHINAI
tel: + 30/ 1 6917763
fax: + 30/ 1 6925259
telex: 214021 INT
email: epic@intra.ucp

Participants

INTRASOFT SA - GR - C
CITY UNIVERSITY - UK - P
INSTITUTE OF PRODUCTION AND
LOGISTICS RESEARCH (IPL) - NL - P
SPECIAL ANALYSIS AND SIMULATION
TECHNOLOGY LTD - UK - P
PLANET SA - GR - P
METEK SA - GR - P
MOTOR OIL - GR - P

EPIC - 2090, December 1993

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