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Hycon 2 Network Show Case: Sugar Factory

Authors:
Alexander Rodriguez
Luis Felipe Acebes
Rogelio Mazaeda
Alejandro Merino
Cesar de Prada

Keywords: process-industry; benchmarking; hybrid systems control

Abstract:
The paper describes a dynamic simulator of a scaled sugar factory to use as a reference, or benchmark, to design and test complex systems control strategies. The process is a subset of a general sugar production process that contains both continuous and batch process units and is closely linked to the factory energy consumption and the quality of the produced sugar. The control problem and the indexes to measure the process performance are set up and the simulation scenarios, or study cases, are given. Finally, different ways to use the simulator from the software point of view are outlined.

Pages: 7 to 12

Copyright: Copyright (c) IARIA, 2013

Publication date: October 27, 2013

Published in: conference

ISSN: 2308-4537

ISBN: 978-1-61208-308-7

Location: Venice, Italy

Dates: from October 27, 2013 to October 31, 2013