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Buffer Management Strategies for Improving Plant Availability

Lindholm, Anna (2009) In MSc Theses
Department of Automatic Control
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. It has been shown that good strategies for buffer management could increase the availability of an entire plant which motivates further research in this area. To be able to compute the optimal solution to a buffer management problem there are many constraints to be specified, among others the topology of the system, the disturbance model and the definition of flow variations. The optimal solution will depend on the choice of constraints and thereby the general buffer management problem becomes very complex. Today a few of the possible problem... (More)
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. It has been shown that good strategies for buffer management could increase the availability of an entire plant which motivates further research in this area. To be able to compute the optimal solution to a buffer management problem there are many constraints to be specified, among others the topology of the system, the disturbance model and the definition of flow variations. The optimal solution will depend on the choice of constraints and thereby the general buffer management problem becomes very complex. Today a few of the possible problem formulations have been solved but there are still many gaps in the research in this area. The purpose of this thesis is to sort out what has been done in the area of buffer management and to try to fill out some of the gaps. The developed methods and strategies are used for improving buffer management in two plants at Perstorp AB. These case studies reveal some buffer management problems that can be present within the process industry. (Less)
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author
Lindholm, Anna
supervisor
organization
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type
H3 - Professional qualifications (4 Years - )
subject
keywords
averaging level control, bottleneck, availability, buffer tanks, buffer management
publication/series
MSc Theses
report number
TFRT-5832
ISSN
0280-5316
language
English
id
8847517
date added to LUP
2016-03-17 10:17:09
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2016-03-17 10:17:09
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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. It has been shown that good strategies for buffer management could increase the availability of an entire plant which motivates further research in this area. To be able to compute the optimal solution to a buffer management problem there are many constraints to be specified, among others the topology of the system, the disturbance model and the definition of flow variations. The optimal solution will depend on the choice of constraints and thereby the general buffer management problem becomes very complex. Today a few of the possible problem formulations have been solved but there are still many gaps in the research in this area. The purpose of this thesis is to sort out what has been done in the area of buffer management and to try to fill out some of the gaps. The developed methods and strategies are used for improving buffer management in two plants at Perstorp AB. These case studies reveal some buffer management problems that can be present within the process industry.}},
  author       = {{Lindholm, Anna}},
  issn         = {{0280-5316}},
  language     = {{eng}},
  note         = {{Student Paper}},
  series       = {{MSc Theses}},
  title        = {{Buffer Management Strategies for Improving Plant Availability}},
  year         = {{2009}},
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