M and control of distillation columns is a research area that evokes considerable interest. On the one hand, substantial savings are possible with good controllers, on the other hand, distillation columns are often used as test cases for new methods of model based controller design. Strongly nonlinear behavior and high order are the characteristics that present challenges when designing control...

Absfracl-An industrial food processing plant consisting of nonlinear dynamics requires pressure and temperature controllers to he nonlinear. In this paper, nonlinesr controllers are designed using. fuzzy logic to augment the conventional pressure and temperature PI controllers for an industrial food processing plant. Simulation results are presented to show improvement in the plant response wit...

In this paper we explore the development of integrated plant simulator that integrates MATLAB as an engine and DCS CS3000 as an industrial controller. It works realtime and online like real industrial control plant scheme. For industrial practicians like operator and engineer, this simulator is very useful as an operator training or control educational tools and can be used to implement loop pa...

Supervisory control and data acquisition systems (SCADA) are widely used in industry for supervisory control and data acquisition of industrial processes. The process can be industrial, infrastructure or facility. With the advances of electronic and software technologies, the SCADA systems are widely used in industrial plant automation. It provides an efficient tool to monitor and control equip...

Social network analysis (SNA) is a widely studied research topics, which has been increasingly being applied for solving different kind of problems, including industrial manufacturing ones. This paper focuses on the application of SNA on an industrial plant layout problem. The study aims at analyzing the importance of using SNA techniques to analyze important relations between entities in a man...

The use of a plant model on formal verification of industrial controllers makes the formal verification tasks more realistic, because any industrial system is always composed by a controller and a plant. Therefore, if the plant model is not used, there is a part of the system that is not considered. However, if there are some cases where the use of a plant model becomes the formal verification ...

Background and purpose: Disposing sludge from industrial wastewater treatment plants (IWWTPs) is a serious issue because it can affect human and animals health, and also environmental quality. In this study, sludge from an IWWTP was analyzed regarding its physicochemical characteristics and disposal options. Materials and Methods: Grab sampling was used to collect 12 sludge samples biweekly (Ma...