RUBENS: Rapid and Unique Business Transformation by Extended Sensing for Next Generation Process Sites
Project Information
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09/2022 - 11/2025 |
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Industrial Project |
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LANXESS Deutschland GmbH SAMSON AG KROHNE Innovation GmbH |
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Project description
As a result of volatile markets, increasing demands on energy efficiency and changing customer needs, operators of chemical plants have the responsibility and pressure to continuously optimize existing processes. However, the limited information provided by existing EI&C instruments in brownfield plants is usually insufficient to derive measures and concepts for optimization purposes.
Shematic depiction of NOA
The use of new communication technologies such as APL (Advanced Physical Layer) with suitable interfaces is a promising remediation which provides a significantly higher amount of process data quickly and securely. For this reason, the first focus of the project is to examine how process data can be provided flexibly via the help of APL-devices and the second channel of the NAMUR Open Architecture (NOA) for monitoring and optimization purposes.
Shematic depiction of optimizing a soft sensor by adding new EI&C equipmentframework
Secondly, the project aims to investigate how model-based methods for online optimization (e.g. soft sensors) can be improved using data streams from the second channel and by introducing new EI&C technology. A main objective is to systematically derive valuable data streams from simulation and information models. Realization of required information streams can be achieved efficiently by using e.g. APL and NOA.
Throughout this project, methods and results are tested and validated in a large-scale chemical plant. APL-capable actuators and sensors as well as process nodes that combine control and measurement capability in a single instrument are deployed.