A General Method for Defining and Structuring Buffer Management Problems

Anna Lindholm; Krister Forsman; Charlotta Johnsson

doi:10.1109/ACC.2010.5530773

A General Method for Defining and Structuring Buffer Management Problems

Anna Lindholm, Krister Forsman, Charlotta Johnsson

Department of Automatic Control

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Abstract

In an industrial plant, availability is an important factor since increased availability often gives an increase of final production, which in many cases means an increased profit for the company. The purpose of using buffer tanks is to increase the availability either by separating production units from each other or by minimizing flow variations. However, the methods for achieving this goal is not trivial, and depend on the specific characteristics of the problem. This paper contributes to structuring the general buffer management problem for continuous chemical plants and suggests methods for solving some specific problems, presented as a case study at Perstorp AB, Sweden.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	[Host publication title missing]
Pages	4397-4402
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/ACC.2010.5530773
Publication status	Published - 2010
Event	American Control Conference, 2010 - Baltimore, MD, Baltimore, MD, United States Duration: 2010 Jun 30 → 2010 Jul 2

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Conference	American Control Conference, 2010
Country/Territory	United States
City	Baltimore, MD
Period	2010/06/30 → 2010/07/02

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Control Engineering

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process control
availability
level control

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