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May 31, 2007
Crude Gets Smart
“I’ve got to optimize my hydrocarbon distillation train, but in order to know what’s going on in real-time I need a bunch of analyzers. But in my experience analyzers are expensive and hard to maintain in my plant. I guess I’ll have to just bite the bullet and get them anyway.”
If you may be faced with this type of no-win situation there may be a better way out of this fix. Pavel Kataev, Wulf Slobodkin of LUKOIL and Alexei Slavnov and Lou Heavner of Emerson Process Management penned an article in the March issue of InTech magazine titled, Crude Gets Smart. (180KB PDF) They relate their experiences using neural network technology in place of analyzers in a three tower crude distillation unit in the Perm refinery in Russia. The piece discusses setting up the neural models, training them and testing their results along with the watch-outs necessary to make things work as they should.
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