2011
EMSS 2011 Proceeding
Sugar Factory Benchmark
Authors: Rogelio Mazaeda, Alexander Rodriguez, Alejandro Merino, Cesar De Prada, Luis Felipe Acebes
Abstract
This paper describes a simulated benchmark specifically designed for trying out and comparing different decentralized control strategies applicable to large scale complex process plants. The benchmark represents a reduced version of a typical beet sugar factory and basically corresponds to the interrelation of the Evaporation and the Sugar End sections. The underlying dynamic model is full of realistic details and has been derived from first principles, stating all the involved mass, energy and population balances. The ready to be used executable is offered to the interested parties as a standard and documented package accessible from any system implementing the widely used OPC process communication protocol.
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