Real-time simulation design for continuous process industries

Abstract

Process industries with complex operations require comprehensive training for plant operators/process engineers to understand the dynamics and to achieve process control efficiency. Cost effective and highly customizable simulator is the need for many industries. This paper elaborates the design, prototype, and features of a generic process simulator framework, components, and interfaces to represent intelligent model formats, knowledge, facts, behaviors, and rules. The benefits of fully functional simulator range from theoretical learning of processes to the synthesis of modeled and tuned controllers to mimic various stages/sections of a continuous process industry.