Industry 4.0 and Advanced Process Control in Edible Oil Refining

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard Salliss
Author(s):  
Peter Kopacek

Process – and manufacturing automation as well as robotics are currently one of the fast growing fields in automation. Advanced process control, cyber-physical systems, industry 4.0 and “advanced robots” are no longer a headline. They are in realization. As a consequence of these developments new social, ethical and human questions appear. Therefore this contribution is a first report about the continuous “modernization” of the Mechatronics Management BSc and MSc programs which are successful running at UBT. Both programs were developed in the framework of two TEMPUS projects from an international consortium from 2006 to 2009. Since that time new “buzzwords” appears. For a contemporary education of the participants these new subjects have to be included in the curricula.


2016 ◽  
pp. 620-624
Author(s):  
Scott Kahre

Advanced process control technology can provide sugar processors the ability to realize major revenue enhancements and/or operating cost reductions with low initial investment. One technology in particular, model predictive control (MPC), holds the potential to increase production, reduce energy costs, and reduce quality variability in a wide variety of major sugar unit operations. These include centrifugal stations, pulp dryers, extractors, diffusers, mills, evaporating crystallizers, juice purification, and more. Simple payback periods as low as two months are projected. As a PC-based add-on to existing distributed control systems (DCS) or programmable logic controller (PLC) systems, MPC acts as a multi-input, multi-output controller, utilizing predictive process response models and optimization functions to control complex processes to their optimum cost and quality constraints.


2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lena Zavyalova ◽  
Chong-Cheng Fu ◽  
Gary S. Seligman ◽  
Perry A. Tapp ◽  
Victor Pol

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Timothy D. Stanley ◽  
Richard J. Markle ◽  
Brad Van Eck ◽  
Brian K. Cusson ◽  
Matthew A. Purdy ◽  
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