Modelling strategy, model quality monitoring and model adaptation
• Models suitable for the purpose for the CoPro industrial case studies
• Comprehensive survey of model quality measures and their application in the process industries
• General techniques for hybrid modelling and tool within PSE’s gPROMS environment.
• Approach to introduce constraints in data-driven models to capture the qualitative behaviour of the underlying physical process
Data Processing and Process and Product Quality Monitoring
• Improved data reconciliation formulations
• Soft sensor for fouling
• Derivation of rules for the root causes of deviations of plant efficiency from the best demonstrated practice
• Anomaly detection method for a critical polymerization reactor
Plant and site-wide optimisation and control of continuously operated plants
• Method for robust estimation of the best demonstrated performance from production data
• Operator assistance to improve energy and resource efficiency
• Decision support tool for the optimization of the production and procurement of intermediates in large sites
• Methods for efficient mixed-integer linear modelling of complex production networks including storage and logistics
• Decision support for the optimization of the operation of evaporator networks
• Efficient algorithms for the joint optimization of plants that are coupled by resource networks, via market-like algorithms
• Methods for the integrated scheduling and adaptation of operational parameters of batch processes in food processing
Plant-wide control of flexible multi-product plants
Models and solution techniques
• for production scheduling of multi-product, multi-purpose mixed batch and continuous plants
• for integrated optimization of operations and scheduling for batch processes
• for the optimization of product changeovers in multiproduct plants in the consumer goods industry with and without intermediate storage
Human-machine interaction, IT integration and LC assessment (Lead: LEIKON)
Main results are:
• New HMIs for several applications
• Intexc suite for the integration of model-based solutions into the IT/OT infrastructure
• Model management platform
Applications to use cases, demonstrations and feasibility studies
LENZING
• Implementation of a system for real-time load allocation for an evaporator network (in daily productive use)
• Methods and algorithms for integrated scheduling and operation of an evaporator and condenser network using river water (prototype)
INEOS
• Complete modelling and optimization of the NH3-network, including storage and logistics (prototype)
• Reliable estimation of the best demonstrated efficiency for large-scale plants from measured data (in productive use)
• Derivation of the root causes for deviations from the best demonstrated plant efficiency (pilot)
COVESTRO
• Optimization of the production and procurement of technical gases (pilot)
FRINSA
• Production scheduling system for the complete production (prototype)
• Integrated optimization of the operation and scheduling of the sterilizers (pilot)
P&G
• Product assignment and sequencing algorithm for multi-product consumer goods production (prototype)
Exploitation, Dissemination, Standardisation
• Continuous communication via LikedIn, Research Gate and the CoPro web site
• 35 peer-reviewed published papers
• Final online event with about 180 participants
• Two market studies for SMEs from the CoPro consortium
• Detailed exploitation plans, roll-out of several developments in the participating companies, two developments led to new products by SMEs immediately after the end of CoPro
• Contribution to international standardization activities
