Process Systems Engineering for Complex Industrial Systems

A special issue of Processes (ISSN 2227-9717). This special issue belongs to the section "Process Control and Monitoring".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 10 September 2024 | Viewed by 1186

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Department of Chemical and Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 1H9, Canada
Interests: process control; transfer learning; estimation; distributed parameter systems; processes systems engineering

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School of Automation, China University of Geosciences, No. 388, Lumo Road, Wuhan, China
Interests: process monitoring; fault diagnosis; machine learning
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School of Electrical and Information Engineering, Tianjin University, No. 135, Yaguan Road, Tianjin, China
Interests: multivariate statistical analysis; process monitoring; deep neural network
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School of Mechanical and Electrical Engineering, Soochow University, Suzhou 215137, China
Interests: intelligent control; artificial intelligence; image processing; robotics
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Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

With the rapid advancement of modern industrial engineering, process systems engineering plays an increasingly important role in addressing the increasing system complexity and enhancing profitability, safety, and sustainability. Conventional techniques and solutions are often insufficient to deal with the multiple scales and plantwide networks of complex industrial systems. To address the complexity of modern industrial systems, advanced model-based and data-driven methods, algorithms, and solutions are needed for accurate modeling, monitoring, planning, and control.

The special issue on “Process Systems Engineering for Complex Industrial Systems” seeks high-quality works focusing on the recent advances in process systems engineering for industrial applications, especially the model-based, data-driven and hybrid techniques for process modeling, condition monitoring, fault detection and diagnosis, quality prediction and soft sensing, regulation and control design, etc. Moreover, new problems and future research directions on process systems engineering are also welcome.

Topics include, but are not limited to:

  • Model-based process modeling
  • Data-driven process modeling
  • State and parameter estimation
  • Condition monitoring, fault detection and diagnosis
  • Software sensor modeling
  • Process control and regulation
  • Thermodynamics-based process modeling and control
  • Machine learning-based modeling, estimation, and control
  • Process data analytics and multivariate statistical analysis
  • Hybrid methods and model calibration
  • Applications in chemical, biological, manufacturing, and energy systems

Dr. Junyao Xie
Prof. Dr. Wanke Yu
Dr. Shumei Zhang
Dr. Yiyang Chen
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Keywords

  • process systems engineering
  • modeling
  • control
  • estimation
  • systems analysis
  • methods
  • algorithms
  • tools
  • design

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Soft Sensor Modeling Method Considering Higher-Order Moments of Prediction Residuals
by Fangyuan Ma, Cheng Ji, Jingde Wang, Wei Sun and Ahmet Palazoglu
Processes 2024, 12(4), 676; https://doi.org/10.3390/pr12040676 - 28 Mar 2024
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Traditional data-driven soft sensor methods can be regarded as an optimization process to minimize the predicted error. When applying the mean squared error as the objective function, the model tends to be trained to minimize the global errors of overall data samples. However, [...] Read more.
Traditional data-driven soft sensor methods can be regarded as an optimization process to minimize the predicted error. When applying the mean squared error as the objective function, the model tends to be trained to minimize the global errors of overall data samples. However, there are deviations in data from practical operation, in which the model performance in the estimation of the local variations in the target parameter worsens. This work presents a solution to this challenge by considering higher-order moments of prediction residuals, which enables the evaluation of deviations of the residual distribution from the normal distribution. By embedding constraints on the distribution of residuals into the objective function, the model tends to converge to the state where both stationary and deviation data can be accurately predicted. Data from the Tennessee Eastman process and an industrial cracking furnace are considered to validate the performance of the proposed modeling method. Full article
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