Optimal selection of soft sensor inputs for batch distillation columns using principal component analysis |
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Authors: | Eliana Zamprogna Massimiliano Barolo Dale E Seborg |
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Affiliation: | a DIPIC––Dipartimento di Principi e Impianti di Ingegneria Chimica, Università di Padova, Via Marzolo, 9, I-35131, Padova, PD, Italy;b Department of Chemical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA |
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Abstract: | In this paper, a novel methodology based on principal component analysis (PCA) is proposed to select the most suitable secondary process variables to be used as soft sensor inputs. In the proposed approach, a matrix is defined that measures the instantaneous sensitivity of each secondary variable to the primary variables to be estimated. The most sensitive secondary variables are then extracted from this matrix by exploiting the properties of PCA, and they are used as input variables for the development of a regression model suitable for on-line implementation.This method has been evaluated by developing a soft sensor that uses temperature measurements and a process regression model to estimate on-line the product compositions for a simulated batch distillation process. The identification of the optimal soft sensor inputs for this case study has been discussed with respect to the definition of the sensitivity matrix, the data sampling interval, the presence of measurement noise, and the size of the input set. The simulation results demonstrate that the proposed approach can effectively identify the size and configuration of the input set that leads to the optimal estimation performance of the soft sensor. |
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Keywords: | Optimal sensor location Principal component analysis Measurement selection Soft sensor Batch distillation Partial least squares regression |
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