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| Title | Towards Real Time Optimization in the Food Industry: Application to Sugar Cane Manufacturing | ||
| Abstract | Modeling and optimization
of flexible (hybrid) processes may become very complex when it comes to
the level of detail required to adequately represent real-life operations,
and very difficult to standardize if it involves a very wide variety of
operations, as happens to be the case of today's flexible manufacturing
industries. Also a major limitation of present solutions is that they do
not adequately reflect the distributed nature of the problem in terms of
organization and production units. As a consequence, internal disturbances
occurring at any level of this organizational context, or external perturbations
caused by the market environment may create frequent and irrecoverable readjustments
in real-life industrial operations. An integrated platform has been created that incorporates simulation tools, optimization and production scheduling techniques in conjunction with real time plant measurements and control aiming at product quality enhancement, best use of resources and waste reduction. The system's architecture is described and its functional capabilities demonstrated in examples of increasing complexity. Specifically, application to sugar cane manufacturing is discussed in detail through case studies extracted from the actual industrial scenarios . |
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| Authors | Luis Puigjaner | ||
| Speaker | Luis Puigjaner Corbella |
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| Luis Puigjaner is Professor of Chemical Engineering at Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya and Director of the Environmental Center (LCMA) a non-profit agency for environment audit and engineering services. He is the Head of the research team on Design, Operation and Control of Chemical and Biotechnology Processes, which involves 35 researchers. His research interests are mainly concerned with process simulation and optimization and with the development of AI supporting techniques and software. He has supervised 33 PhD Thesis in those areas. He has published over 300 papers in scientific journals and conference proceedings and the author of over 100 technical reports and 8 books. He has been the chairman of 76 sessions at national and international meetings on various topics in Chemical Engineering. He has been the responsible scientist and co-ordinator in 35 projects funded by the EC (JOULE, ESPRIT and BRITE programmes), 12 national projects (CAICYT, CICYT, CIRIT), 2 US-Spain collaborative projects and over 100 other projects funded by private industry. He is member of professional societies (AIChE, ACS, NSPE, ASA, IEEE). He has been selected member of Honour Societies (N.Y. Acad. Sciences, ETA KAPPA NU Honour Soc.) and his biography is included in the Who's Who in Science and Engineering and Who's Who in the World. He received the Award of Technology Innovation from Rhône-Poulenc (1994), Narcis Monturiol Medal to distinguished Scientists (1995), Gaspar de Portola Award (1996), ESPRIT-PACE Technology Innovation Award (1997). | |||
| Institution | Chemical Engineering Department (Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña). |
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The Chemical Engineering Department
(DEQ) concentrates most of the teaching and research activities of the
UPC in Chemistry and Chemical Engineering. It runs three PhD programmes
as well as several postgraduates Courses aimed at professionals. Research
activities focus on Process Engineering, Polymers and Plastics, Biotechnology
Food Technology and Environmental Engineering. |
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