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36446 Chemical Plant Operation
Danish title: Drift af kemiske procesanlæg
Language: English Credit points: 5
Type: Open University
Language: English

Prerequisite: 36230 eller tilsvarende
Recommended semester: 8th semester
Scope and form: Instruction of the class and exercise in 2-3 persons team.
Examination: Evaluation of reports (13-scale)
Participant limitation: min. 6 max. 15

Contact person: Sten Bay Jørgensen, Building 227, Tel. +45 4525 2872, email sbj@kt.dtu.dk

Department: Department of Chemical Engineering
Aim: To teach the participants to:

- Plan and execute start-up of the chemical plant.

- Apply a Distributed Control System for chemical plant operation.

- Document operation of a chemical plant.
Contents: Introduction to a practical plant, e.g. an energyintegrated distillation column incl. measurement, control and safety supervision system. Calibration proce-
dures for measurements. Construction of control loop diagrams. Introduction to plant control hierachy, incl. safety aspects. Introductin to the principles for how production planning and scheduling affects plant optation. Operator controlled start-up, operation and shut-down are executed. In addition an automated start-up using e.g. Fuzzy Control is executed.