Smart Process Plants: Software and Hardware Solutions for Accurate Data
and Profitable Operations: Data Reconciliation, Gross Error Detection, and Instrumentation
Upgrade
A Detailed Guide to the New Generation of Smart Process Plants
Maximize plant profitability by minimizing operating costs. Smart Process
Plants addresses measurements and the data they generate, error-free process variable
estimation, control, fault detection, instrumentation upgrade, and maintenance
optimization, and then connects these activities to plant economics. Methods for
calculating the value of the information produced are included. The book discusses optimal
instrumentation type, quality, precision, and location along with preventive maintenance
techniques. Practical examples throughout the book demonstrate how to perform essential
calculations.
Smart Process Plants covers:
- Measurement instrument performance and measurement errors
- Variable classification and canonical representation
- Linear, nonlinear, and dynamic data reconciliation
- Gross error detection, equivalency, size elimination, and estimation
- Accuracy of estimators
- Value of accuracy, control strategies, parametric fault identification, and
instrumentation upgrade
- Maintenance optimization
Professor Miguel J. Bagajewicz is the Sam Wilson Professor of Chemical Engineering
at the University of Oklahoma. His research is in the fields of design, operation,
simulation, and optimization of process plants and product design. In addition, Bagajewicz
specializes in financial risk, environmentally benign processes, and micro-economics, as
applied to product design.
Table of Contents
1 Smart Plants
2 Measurement Errors
3 Variable Classification
4 Material Balance Data Reconciliation
5 Gross Error Detection
6 Equivalency of Gross Errors
7 Gross Error Size Elimination and Estimation
8 Nonlinear Data Reconciliation
9 Dynamic Data Reconciliation
10 Accuracy of Estimators
11 Ecomimic Value of Accuracy
12 Data Reconciliation Practical Issues
13 Value of Control Strategies
14 Value of Parametric Fault Identification
15 Value of Instrumentation Upgrade - Monitoring and Faults Perspectives
16 Value of Instrumentation Upgrade - Control Perspective
17 Structural Faults and Value of Maintenance
18 Maintenance Optimization
19 Value and Optimization of Instrument
Index
464 pages, Hardcover