Conveners
AI applications
- Shirley Coleman (Newcastle University)
Problem/Challenge: The goal of this project was to autonomously control a part of a tissue mill’s continuous manufacturing process using artificial intelligence and predictive analytics to reduce raw material consumption while maintaining the product quality within the specification limit. The project objective was to overcome the challenge within the operator’s ability to act quickly with...
In the chemical process industry (CPI), it is important to properly manage process and equipment degradation as it can lead to great economic losses. The degradation dynamics are seldom included in modeling frameworks due to their complexity, time resolution and measurement difficulty. However, tackling this problem can provide new process insights and contribute to better predictive...
Performing online monitoring for short horizon data is a challenging, though cost effective benefit. Self-starting methods attempt to address this issue adopting a hybrid scheme that executes calibration and monitoring simultaneously. In this work, we propose a Bayesian alternative that will utilize prior information and possible historical data (via power priors), offering a head-start in...