Soft analyzers for a sulfur recovery unit

L Fortuna, A Rizzo, M Sinatra, MG Xibilia - Control Engineering Practice, 2003 - Elsevier
This work deals with the design and implementation of soft sensors for a Sulfur Recovery
Unit (SRU) in a refinery. Soft sensors are mathematical models able to emulate the behavior …

Soft sensor modeling based on multi-state-dependent parameter models and application for quality monitoring in industrial sulfur recovery process

B Bidar, F Shahraki, J Sadeghi… - IEEE Sensors …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Soft sensors have gained wide popularity in the industrial processes for online quality
prediction in the recent years. In the case of online deployment, it is important to incorporate …

Soft sensors for product quality monitoring in debutanizer distillation columns

L Fortuna, S Graziani, MG Xibilia - Control Engineering Practice, 2005 - Elsevier
The paper deals with the design of neural based soft sensors to improve product quality
monitoring and control in a refinery by estimating the stabilized gasoline concentration (C5) …

Data-driven soft sensors in the process industry

P Kadlec, B Gabrys, S Strandt - Computers & chemical engineering, 2009 - Elsevier
In the last two decades Soft Sensors established themselves as a valuable alternative to the
traditional means for the acquisition of critical process variables, process monitoring and …

Comparison of soft-sensor design methods for industrial plants using small data sets

L Fortuna, S Graziani, MG Xibilia - IEEE Transactions on …, 2009 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper analyzes a number of strategies that are devoted to improving the generalization
capabilities of neural-network-based soft sensors when only small data sets are available …

Soft sensor for continuous product quality estimation (in crude distillation unit)

A Rogina, I Šiško, I Mohler, Ž Ujević, N Bolf - … Engineering Research and …, 2011 - Elsevier
Due to the strict norm requirements of keeping products in crude refining units within
specifications, laboratory testing and quality control of the products are necessary. Given this …

Soft-sensing estimation of plant effluent concentrations in a biological wastewater treatment plant using an optimal neural network

JF de Canete, P del Saz-Orozco, R Baratti… - Expert Systems with …, 2016 - Elsevier
Recent studies into the estimation and control of an activated sludge process (ASP) at a
wastewater treatment plant suggest that artificial-intelligence methods, such as neural …

Soft sensing modeling based on support vector machine and Bayesian model selection

W Yan, H Shao, X Wang - Computers & chemical engineering, 2004 - Elsevier
Soft sensors have been widely used in industrial process control to improve the quality of
product and assure safety in production. The core of a soft sensor is to construct a soft …

Robust data-driven soft sensor based on iteratively weighted least squares support vector regression optimized by the cuckoo optimization algorithm

M Behnasr, H Jazayeri-Rad - Journal of Natural Gas Science and …, 2015 - Elsevier
In process industries, use of the data-driven soft sensors for the purpose of process control
and monitoring has gained much popularity. Data-driven soft sensors infer the process …

A nonlinear soft sensor based on multivariate smoothing procedure for quality estimation in distillation columns

S Park, C Han - Computers & Chemical Engineering, 2000 - Elsevier
An accurate on-line measurement of quality variables are essential for the successful
monitoring and control tasks in chemical process operations. However, due to the …