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New strategies for process control (4474)
Coordinating lecturer:Prof. dr. ir. Mumin enis LEBLEBICI 
Co-lecturer:Prof. dr. ir. Jozefien DE KEYZER 

Credits: 4,0
Study load hours: 108
Period: semester 1 (4sp)

Language of instruction: English
Exam contract: not possible

2nd Chance Exam1: Yes
Final grade2: Numerical
Tolerance3: See included in these programmes
Sequentiality
Advising sequentiality bound on the level of programme components
 
 
Group 1
 
  Following programme components are advised to also be included in your study programme up till now.
    Chemical design and safety (3313) 4.0 stptn  
    ICT tools for Chemical Engineers (4033) 3.0 stptn  
    Process control (2624) 3.0 stptn  
    Reactor engineering (3301) 3.0 stptn  
    Separation processes (4335) 3.0 stptn  
 
Or group 2
 
  Following programme components are advised to also be included in your study programme up till now.
    Chemical design and safety (3313) 4.0 stptn  
    Coding & Scripting transition (4293) 3.0 stptn  
    ICT tools for Chemical Engineers (4033) 3.0 stptn  
    Process control (2624) 3.0 stptn  
    Reactor engineering (3301) 3.0 stptn  
    Separation processes (4335) 3.0 stptn  
 


Content

DATA DRIVEN MODELLING AND CONTROL

1.INTRODUCTION

Course introduction: teaching group, course material, suggested videos and books, timeline, evaluation methodAI introduction: what is AI and its advantages, the categories of AI and applications, optimization in chemical engineering, AI methods applied to modeling, AI methods applied to control, AI methods applied to optimizationsPython introduction: Python documents and learning materials, introduction to environments and IDEs, Python installation, introduction to python libraries used during the course

2.DATA PROCESSING

  • Scaling techniques: scaling data to a range, scaling sparse data, scaling data with outliers, normalization
  • Data cleaning from industrial processes: how a database is done, data flow on a plant, case specific measurement issues and how to overcome them, data filtering

3.BLACK BOX MODELLING

  • Artificial Neural network: applications in chemical engineering, activation functions, multilayer perceptron, backpropagation algorithm, overfitting and early stopping, cross-validation
  • Multivariate rational function: approximation of a function, ideal distribution for approximation, distribution in chemical engineering case, the structure of an multivariate rational function, difference between polynomial and multivariate rational function
  • Heuristic optimization: particle swarm optimization and application in chemical engineering, differential evolution and application in chemical engineering
  • Gradient-based optimization: differences with an heuristic optimization, gradient descent, stochastic gradient descent, learning rate, linear programming

4.HYBRID MODELLING

  • Build and application of hybrid model in chemical case: different stucture of an hybrid model, the advantages to use an hybrid model rather a pure black-box or white-box, hybrid model application in chemical engineering

5.CONTROL

  • Model-predictive control

6.AI IN CHEMICAL CASES

  • Reaction case
  • Separation case



Pinch technology: introduction & solving problems using Excel


Recommended course material
 

1. Links:

2. Books:

  • “Hands-On Machine Learning with Scikit-Learn, Keras, and TensorFlow” by Aurelien Geron
  • “Python for Data Analysis: Data Wrangling with Pandas, NumPy, and IPython” by Wes McKinney
  • “Hybrid Modeling in Process Industries” by Jarka Glassey
  • “Artificial intelligence in chemical engineering” by Thomas E. Quantrille

3. Papers:

  • Venkatasubramanian, V. The Promise of Artificial Intelligence in Chemical Engineering: Is It Here, Finally? (2018) doi:10.1002/aic.16489.
  • von Stosch, M., Oliveira, R., Peres, J. & Feyo de Azevedo, S. Hybrid semi-parametric modeling in process systems engineering: Past, present and future. Comput. Chem. Eng. 60, 86–101 (2014).
  • Chiang, L., Lu, B. & Castillo, I. Big Data Analytics in Chemical Engineering. Annu. Rev. Chem. Biomol. Eng. 8, 63–85 (2017).

 

Chemic al process: design and integration, Robin Smith, Wiley, 9781119094418

Documents on electronic learning platform (Toledo)
 

Mandatory software
 

EXCEL-software
 

Remarks
 

Orientation in the curriculum: 

This course is part of the learning domain Proces design and engineering in the optie duurzame procestechnologie en kunststoffen.


Organisational and teaching methods
Organisational methods  
Application Lecture ✔  
Small group session ✔  
Teaching methods  
Exercises ✔  
Group work ✔  
Homework ✔  


Evaluation

Semester 1 (4,00sp)

Evaluation method
Written evaluation during teaching period90 %
Transfer of partial marks within the academic yearYes, with condition
Conditions transfer of partial marks within the academic yearOne Test using Excel (pinch 25%) One report(group 50%) 2 Homeworks (individual 15%) The grade for the homework tasks will be retained. The test on Pinch technology (25% of Final Grade - FG) can be retaken if the grade is < 12,0/20. If the grade on this test is >= 12,0/20, this grade will also be retained. Almost every week there are very small homeworks. There will be 2 larger individual homeworks during the semester. Homework grade retained to 2nd exam. At the end of the semester the students will deliver reports. (Group work /50% FG). Report grade retained for second chance. This report will also be defended via a presentation (see evaluation in exam eriod 10% FG).
Closed-book ✔
Homework✔
Open questions✔
Report✔
Oral exam10 %
Transfer of partial marks within the academic yearYes, no resit exam
Presentation✔
Additional information

Almost every week there are very small homeworks. There will be 2 larger individual homeworks during the semester. (Average of homeworks - larger : 15% of final grade-FG) At the end of the semester the students will deliver reports. (Group work /50% FG) This report will also be defended via a presentation (10% FG).

There will also be a test for the part on Pinch technology (scored practice session, closed book with open formulas 25% FG) 

Second examination period

Evaluation second examination opportunity different from first examination opprt
No
Explanation (English)The report (50% Final Grade-FG) can be corrected and send as second
chance. The test (25% FG) can be repeated. The other grades remain the
same, no second chance for that part.


Learning outcomes
  EC = learning outcomes      DC = partial outcomes      BC = evaluation criteria  
Included in these programmesTolerance3
Exchange Programme Engineering Technology Y
Master of Chemical Engineering Technology optie duurzame procestechnologie Y



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