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Optimal Reaction Conditions for Minimization of Energy and Byproducts in a Poly(ethylene terephthalate) Process

  • Ha, Kyoung-Su;Rhee, Hyun-Ku
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1999.10a
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    • pp.248-251
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    • 1999
  • The optimal reaction conditions are determined for a PET process, which consists of transesteriflcation, prepolymerization and polycondensation reactors in series. Based on the simulation results of the reactor system, we scrutinize the cause and effect between the reaction conditions and the final properties of the polymer product. We then select the process variables with significant influence on the properties of polymer as control variables and calculate the optimal reaction conditions by iterative dynamic programming (IDP) algorithm with constraints. A new reaction scheme incorporating reactions for by-products as well as three main reactions is considered in the constrained IDP method.

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Research Results and Trends Analysis on Process Control Charts for Non-normal Process (비정규 공정을 위한 공정관리도의 연구동향 분석)

  • Kim, Jong-Gurl;Kim, Chang-Su;Um, Sang-Joon;Kim, Hyung-Man;Choi, Seong-Won;Jeong, Dong-Gu
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2013.04a
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    • pp.547-556
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    • 2013
  • Control chart is most widely used in SPC(Statistical Process Control), Recently it is a critical issue that the standard control chart is not suitable to non-normal process with very small percent defective. Especially, this problem causes serious errors in the reliability procurement, such as semiconductor, high-precision machining and chemical process etc. Procuring process control technique for non-normal process with very small percent defective and perturbation is becoming urgent. Control chart technique in non-normal distribution become very important issue. In this paper, we investigate on research trend of control charts under non-normal distribution.

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Fault Detection & SPC of Batch Process using Multi-way Regression Method (다축-다변량회귀분석 기법을 이용한 회분식 공정의 이상감지 및 통계적 제어 방법)

  • Woo, Kyoung Sup;Lee, Chang Jun;Han, Kyoung Hoon;Ko, Jae Wook;Yoon, En Sup
    • Korean Chemical Engineering Research
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    • v.45 no.1
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    • pp.32-38
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    • 2007
  • A batch Process has a multi-way data structure that consists of batch-time-variable axis, so the statistical modeling of a batch process is a difficult and challenging issue to the process engineers. In this study, We applied a statistical process control technique to the general batch process data, and implemented a fault-detection and Statistical process control system that was able to detect, identify and diagnose the fault. Semiconductor etch process and semi-batch styrene-butadiene rubber process data are used to case study. Before the modeling, we pre-processed the data using the multi-way unfolding technique to decompose the data structure. Multivariate regression techniques like support vector regression and partial least squares were used to identify the relation between the process variables and process condition. Finally, we constructed the root mean squared error chart and variable contribution chart to diagnose the faults.

A Study on the Application of CUSUM Control Charts under Non-normal Process (비정규 공정에서의 누적합 관리도 적용에 관한 연구)

  • Kim, Jong-Geol;Eom, Sang-Jun;Choe, Seong-Won
    • Proceedings of the Safety Management and Science Conference
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    • 2011.11a
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    • pp.535-549
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    • 2011
  • Control chart is most widely used in SPC(Statistical Process Control), Recently it is a critical issue that the standard control chart is not suitable to non-normal process with very small percent defective. Especially, this problem causes serious errors in the reliability procurement, such as semiconductor, high-precision machining and chemical process etc. Procuring process control technique for non-normal process with very small percent defective and perturbation is becoming urgent. Control chart technique in non-normal distribution become very important issue. In this paper, we investigate on research trend of control charts under non-normal distribution with very small percent defective and perturbation, and propose some variable-transformation methods applicable to CUSUM control charts in non-normal process.

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Statistical process control of dye solution stream using spectrophotometer

  • Lee, Won-Jae;Cho, Gyo-Young
    • Journal of the Korean Data and Information Science Society
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    • v.21 no.6
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    • pp.1289-1303
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    • 2010
  • The need for statistical process control to check the performance of a process is becoming more important in chemical and pharmaceutical industries. This study illustrates the method to determine whether a process is in control and how to produce and interpret control charts. In the experiment, a stream of green dyed water and a stream of pure water were continuously mixed in the process. The concentration of the dye solution was measured before and after the mixer via a spectrophotometer. The in-line mixer provided benefits to the dye and water mixture but not for the stock dye solution. The control charts were analyzed, and the pre-mixer process was in control for both the stock and mixed solutions. The R and X-bar charts showed virtually all of the points within control limits, and there were no patterns in the X-bar charts to suggest nonrandom data. However, the post-mixer process was shown to be out of control. While the R charts showed variability within the control limits, the X-bar charts were out of control and showed a steady increase in values, suggesting that the data was nonrandom. This steady increase in dye concentration was due to discontinuous, non-steady state flow. To improve the experiment in the future, a mixer could be inserted into the stock dye tank. The mixer would ensure that the dye concentration of the stock solution is more uniform prior to entering the pre-mixer ow cell. Overall, this would create a better standard to judge the water and dye mixture data against as well.

Process operation improvement methodology based on statistical data analysis (통계적 분석기법을 이용한 공정 운전 향상의 방법)

  • Hwang, Dae-Hee;Ahn, Tae-Jin;Han, Chonghun
    • 제어로봇시스템학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 1997.10a
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    • pp.1516-1519
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    • 1997
  • With disseminationof Distributed Control Systems(DCS), the huge amounts of process operation data could have been available and led to figure out process behaviors better on the statistical basis. Until now, the statistical modeling technology has been susally applied to process monitoring and fault diagnosis. however, it has been also thought that these process information, extracted from statistical analysis, might serve a great opportunity for process operation improvements and process improvements. This paper proposed a general methodolgy for process operation improvements including data analysis, backing up the result of analysis based on the methodology, and the mapping physical physical phenomena to the Principal Components(PC) which is the most distinguished feature in the methodology form traditional statistical analyses. The application of the proposed methodology to the Balst Furnace(BF) process has been presented for details. The BF process is one of the complicated processes, due to the highly nonlinear and correlated behaviors, and so the analysis for the process based on the mathematical modeling has been very difficult. So the statisitical analysis has come forward as a alternative way for the useful analysis. Using the proposed methodology, we could interpret the complicated process, the BF, better than any other mathematical methods and find the direction for process operation improvement. The direction of process operationimprovement, in the BF case, is to increase the fludization and the permeability, while decreasing the effect of tapping operation. These guide directions, with those physical meanings, could save fuel cost and process operator's pressure for proper actions, the better set point changes, in addition to the assistance with the better knowledge of the process. Open to set point change, the BF has a variety of steady state modes. In usual almost chemical processes are under the same situation with the BF in the point of multimode steady states. The proposed methodology focused on the application to the multimode steady state process such as the BF, consequently can be applied to any chemical processes set point changing whether operator intervened or not.

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Development of an Assembly-type Liquid Level Control Experimental Equipment and a Hands-on Activity Task for Vocational High School 'Chemical Process Maintenance Operation' Subject (특성화고 '화학공정유지운영' 교과를 위한 조립형 액위제어 실험장치 및 체험활동과제 개발)

  • Jung, Eun-Suk;Lee, Kyung Taek
    • 대한공업교육학회지
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    • v.45 no.2
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    • pp.1-20
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    • 2020
  • The purpose of this study is to develop an assembly-type liquid level control experimental equipment and a hands-on activity task that can be applied to the class so that students studying the chemical industry can easily understand the liquid level control. For this purpose, the content elements related to liquid level control in the chemical industry practice course of the 2015 revised curriculum was analyzed, a hands-on activity task with an assembly-type liquid level control experimental equipment was and developed. And then, expert verification was also performed and the hands-on activity task was applied to 19 students of S meister high school. The results obtained through this are as follows. First, the existing completion-type liquid level control experimental equipment was explored, and based on this, a new assembly-type liquid level control experimental equipment that can be assembled by students and used for practices was designed and manufactured. Second. by analyzing the contents of the NCS-based 'Chemical Process Maintenance Operation' practical course of the 2015 revised curriculum, learning contents related to level control were extracted. Among the contents related to the level control, the practice with understanding the process flow chart, manufacturing the level control experimental equipment, measuring the flow rate, and checking the level control phenomenon were conducted with the assembly-type liquid level control experimental equipment to systematically learn the level control.

Optimization of filling process in RTM using genetic algorithm

  • Kim, Byoung-Yoon;Nam, Gi-Joon;Ryu, Ho-Sok;Lee, Jae-Wook
    • Korea-Australia Rheology Journal
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    • v.12 no.1
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    • pp.83-92
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    • 2000
  • In resin transfer molding (RTM) process, preplaced fiber mat is set up in a mold and thermoset resin is injected into the mold. An important interest in RTM process is to minimize cycle time without sacrificing part quality or increasing cost. In this study, the numerical simulation and optimization process in filling stage were conducted in order to determine the optimum gate locations. Control volume finite element method (CVFEM) was used in this numerical analysis with the coordinate transformation method to analyze the complex 3-dimensional structure. Experiments were performed to monitor the flow front to validate simulation results. The results of numerical simulation predicted well the experimental results with every single, simultaneous and sequential injection procedure. We performed the optimization analysis for the sequential injection procedure to minimize fill time. The complex geometry of an automobile bumper core was chosen. Genetic algorithm was used in order to determine the optimum gate locations with regard to 3-step sequential injection case. These results could provide the information of the optimum gate locations in each injection step and could predict fill time and flow front.

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Effect of Thermal Annealing on Nanoscale Thickness and Roughness Control of Gravure Printed Organic Light Emitting for OLED with PVK and $Ir(ppy)_3$

  • Lee, Hye-Mi;Kim, A-Ran;Kim, Dae-Kyoung;Cho, Sung-Min;Chae, Hee-Yeop
    • 한국정보디스플레이학회:학술대회논문집
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    • 2009.10a
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    • pp.1511-1514
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    • 2009
  • Organic light emitting layer in OLED device was formed by gravure printing process in this work. Organic surface coated by gravure printing typically showed relatively bad uniformity. Thickness and roughness control was characterized by applying various mixed solvents in this work. Poly (N-vinyl carbazole) (PVK) and fact-tris(2-phenylpyridine)iridium($Ir(ppy)_3$) are host dopant system materials. PVK was used as a host and Ir(ppy)3 as green-emitting dopant. To luminance efficiency of the plasma treatment on etched ITO glass and then PEDOT:PSS spin coated. The device layer structure of OLED devices is as follow Glass/ITO/PEDOT:PSS/PVK+Ir(ppy)3-Active layer /LiF/Al. It was printed by gravure printing technology for polymer light emitting diode (PLED). To control the thickness multi-printing technique was applied. As the number of the printing was increased the thickness enhancement was increased. To control the roughness of organic layer film, thermal annealing process was applied. The annealing temperature was varied from room temperature, $40^{\circ}C$, $80^{\circ}C$, to $120^{\circ}C$.

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The Analysis of a Process Monitoring system based on Functional Link Associative Network (화학공정 감시를 위한 함수연결연상 신경망 시스템 구현)

  • Yoon En Sup;Cho Jae Kyu;Lee Dong Eon;Kim Yong Ha;Ahn Sung Jun
    • Journal of the Korean Institute of Gas
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    • v.7 no.3 s.20
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    • pp.24-31
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    • 2003
  • To operate process plant safely and economically, process monitoring is very important. There are a great number of data acquired through distributed control system and process information system. Fault monitoring is the task with difficulties owing to not only the huge amount of data, but also nonlinearity of chemical processes. In this research, the program, REFA, based on PCA and functional link associative neural network has developed. REFA has better learning capabilities, generalization abilities, and shorter learning time than existing neural network programs. In this work its usefulness has proven by application to Tennessee Eastman process.

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