Towards the Automation of a Chemical Sulphonation Process with Machine Learning

Autor: An Ngoc Lam, Enrique Garcia-Ceja, Øystein Haugen, Asmund Hugo, Espen Martinsen, Brice Morin, Per Olav Hansen
Jazyk: angličtina
Předmět:
Signal Processing (eess.SP)
FOS: Computer and information sciences
Computer Science - Machine Learning
0209 industrial biotechnology
Decision support system
Computer science
Process (engineering)
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02 engineering and technology
Machine learning
computer.software_genre
Machine Learning (cs.LG)
020901 industrial engineering & automation
0202 electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

FOS: Electrical engineering
electronic engineering
information engineering

Production (economics)
Quality (business)
Electrical Engineering and Systems Science - Signal Processing
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Artificial neural network
business.industry
Computer Sciences
Automation
Random forest
Datavetenskap (datalogi)
Analytics
020201 artificial intelligence & image processing
Artificial intelligence
business
computer
Zdroj: 2019 7th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA)
ICCMA
DOI: 10.1109/iccma46720.2019.8988752
Popis: Nowadays, the continuous improvement and automation of industrial processes has become a key factor in many fields, and in the chemical industry, it is no exception. This translates into a more efficient use of resources, reduced production time, output of higher quality and reduced waste. Given the complexity of today's industrial processes, it becomes infeasible to monitor and optimize them without the use of information technologies and analytics. In recent years, machine learning methods have been used to automate processes and provide decision support. All of this, based on analyzing large amounts of data generated in a continuous manner. In this paper, we present the results of applying machine learning methods during a chemical sulphonation process with the objective of automating the product quality analysis which currently is performed manually. We used data from process parameters to train different models including Random Forest, Neural Network and linear regression in order to predict product quality values. Our experiments showed that it is possible to predict those product quality values with good accuracy, thus, having the potential to reduce time. Specifically, the best results were obtained with Random Forest with a mean absolute error of 0.089 and a correlation of 0.978.
Comment: Published in: 2019 7th International Conference on Control, Mechatronics and Automation (ICCMA)
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