Soft sensors for product quality monitoring in debutanizer distillation columns
Control Engineering PracticePublished 31 May 2004
Luigi Fortuna, Salvatore Graziani, Maria Gabriella Xibilia
Citations312
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The paper deals with the design of neural based soft sensors to improve product quality monitoring and control in a refinery by estimating the stabilized gasoline concentration (C5) in the top flow and the butane (C4) concentration in the bottom flow of a debutanizer column, on the basis of a set of available measurements. Three-step predictive dynamic neural models were implemented in order to evaluate in real time the top and bottom product concentrations in the column. The soft sensors designed overcome the great time delay introduced by the corresponding gas chromatograph, giving on-line estimations that are suitable for monitoring and control purposes.
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