화학공학소재연구정보센터
홈 로그인 로그아웃 연락처 사이트맵
Korean Journal of Chemical Engineering, Vol.22, No.4, 503-511, July, 2005
DOI10.1007/BF02706634  Export Citation
An Automatic Synthesis System for Start-Up Operating Procedures of Boiler Plants
Sung Gun Lee, Sang il Han, Yoon Sup Byun, Kyu Suk Hwang†, Young Han Kim1, Dongil Shin2, and En Sup Yoon3
  • Department of Chemical Engineering, Pusan National University, Busan 609-735, Korea
  • 1Department of Chemical Engineering, Dong-A University, Busan 604-714, Korea
  • 2Department of Chemical Engineering, Myongji University, Yongin, Kyunggido 449-728, Korea
  • 3School of Chemical Engineering, Seoul National University, Seoul 151-742, Korea
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As boiler plants which supply steam and heat into chemical plants become larger in scale and more complicated, accidents caused by the wrong understanding and erroneous operations are increasing. In this paper, we present a computer-aided system that should prevent such mistakes and synthesize operating procedures for start-up of steam boiler plants: 1) This system generates a goal tree by generalizing and classifying the operational situations hierarchically, and uses the relationship between an operation and a function to search for primitive operations in the lowest level of the goal tree. 2) It simulates changes in operational situations caused by the action of primitive operations with heuristic knowledge of transition relationships between operational situations. 3) It determines the priority of low-level operational situations and primitive operations by referring to the database on hazardous situations and properties. We have applied the developed system to a large-scale boiler plant to demonstrate its effectiveness.
Keywords:Operating Procedure Synthesis;Boiler Plant;Start-up;Goal Tree;Heuristic Knowledge
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