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Friday, 26 March 2010 |
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MSc colloquium:
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Actuation and Performance of process systems
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Speaker:
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Miloud el Bouzidi
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Supervisor:
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ir. A.E.M. Huesman and prof.dr.ir. P.M.J. Van den Hof
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Location:
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Room K
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Time:
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14:30 until 15:00
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Abstract:
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Availability of actuation or degrees of freedom is a necessary condition to apply control. It seems that actuation is an overlooked issue in the traditional design approach. Actuation is used to control and/or to optimize a process system. The possibility of improving operation by actuation seems not to be designed explicitly. In the last decennium, an important discipline has emerged inside the modern chemical engineering; process intensification. Process intensification is an innovative design approach that aims at improving efficiency of processes and equipment. Process intensification is based on innovative principles and approaches. Process intensification, in contrary to traditional design approach, provides valuable possibilities for actuation. This represents real opportunities for process control and process intensification to cooperate. Intensifying a process can be applied at different levels: from the molecular level (micro scale) to the plant or site level (macro scale). In this project, two process systems (distillation column and a reactor) are improved by using some process intensification principles. The relation between actuation, controllability and economic performance is investigated. The problem is formulated in an open loop optimization setting.
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Other info:
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Introductory colloquium
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