{"title":"Virtual Instruments for the what-if analysis of a process for pollution minimization in an industrial application","authors":"L. Fortuna, S. Graziani, M. Xibilia, G. Napoli","doi":"10.1109/MED.2006.328755","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"This work deals with the design and implementation of soft sensors designed to perform the what-if analysis on a sulfur recovery unit (SRU) in a refinery. Soft sensors are mathematical models able to emulate the behaviour of existing sensors on the basis of available measurements. This paper deals with the design of a soft sensor by using a nonlinear one step ahead model, eventually usable online. The realized models represented the building blocks for the design of the virtual instrument based on a multi steps ahead predictor to be used in the what-if analysis. The instrument allows the estimation the consequences that variations of the input trends produces on system outputs, to eventually improve control policy effectiveness","PeriodicalId":347035,"journal":{"name":"2006 14th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation","volume":"12 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2006-06-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"6","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"2006 14th Mediterranean Conference on Control and Automation","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1109/MED.2006.328755","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
This work deals with the design and implementation of soft sensors designed to perform the what-if analysis on a sulfur recovery unit (SRU) in a refinery. Soft sensors are mathematical models able to emulate the behaviour of existing sensors on the basis of available measurements. This paper deals with the design of a soft sensor by using a nonlinear one step ahead model, eventually usable online. The realized models represented the building blocks for the design of the virtual instrument based on a multi steps ahead predictor to be used in the what-if analysis. The instrument allows the estimation the consequences that variations of the input trends produces on system outputs, to eventually improve control policy effectiveness