Automatic Generation of a High-Fidelity Dynamic Thermal-Hydraulic Process Simulation Model From a 3D Plant Model
Dynamic thermal-hydraulic simulation models have been extensively used by process industry for decision support in sectors, such as power generation, mineral processing, pulp and paper, and oil and gas. Ever-growing competitiveness in the process industry forces experts to rely even more on dynamic...
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doaj-f5fe42aa5fae4dd692fa75d87f1f37542021-03-29T21:13:40ZengIEEEIEEE Access2169-35362018-01-016452174523210.1109/ACCESS.2018.28652068434288Automatic Generation of a High-Fidelity Dynamic Thermal-Hydraulic Process Simulation Model From a 3D Plant ModelGerardo Santillan Martinez0Seppo A. Sierla1https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0402-315XTommi A. Karhela2Jari Lappalainen3Valeriy Vyatkin4Dept. of Electr. Eng. & Autom., Aalto Univ., Helsinki, FinlandDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Aalto University, Helsinki, FinlandDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Aalto University, Helsinki, FinlandVTT Technical Research Center of Finland Ltd., Espoo, FinlandDepartment of Electrical Engineering and Automation, Aalto University, Helsinki, FinlandDynamic thermal-hydraulic simulation models have been extensively used by process industry for decision support in sectors, such as power generation, mineral processing, pulp and paper, and oil and gas. Ever-growing competitiveness in the process industry forces experts to rely even more on dynamic simulation results to take decisions across the process plant lifecycle. However, time-consuming development of simulation models increases model generation costs, limiting their use in a wider number of applications. Detailed 3-D plant models, developed during early plant engineering for process design, could potentially be used as a source of information to enable rapid development of high-fidelity simulation models. This paper presents a method for automatic generation of a thermal-hydraulic process simulation model from a 3-D plant model. Process structure, dimensioning, and component connection information included in the 3-D plant model are extracted from the machine-readable export of the 3-D design tool and used to automatically generate and configure a dynamic thermal-hydraulic simulation model. In particular, information about the piping dimensions and elevations is retrieved from the 3-D plant model and used to calculate head loss coefficients of the pipelines and configure the piping network model. This step, not considered in previous studies, is crucial for obtaining high-fidelity industrial process models. The proposed method is tested using a laboratory process, and the results of the automatically generated model are compared with experimental data from the physical system as well as with a simulation model developed using design data utilized by existing methods on the state of the art. Results show that the proposed method is able to generate high-fidelity models that are able to accurately predict the targeted system, even during operational transients.https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8434288/3D CAD model3D plant modelautomatic model generationfirst-principles modelprocess modelingprocess simulation |
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Gerardo Santillan Martinez Seppo A. Sierla Tommi A. Karhela Jari Lappalainen Valeriy Vyatkin Automatic Generation of a High-Fidelity Dynamic Thermal-Hydraulic Process Simulation Model From a 3D Plant Model IEEE Access 3D CAD model 3D plant model automatic model generation first-principles model process modeling process simulation |
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Gerardo Santillan Martinez Seppo A. Sierla Tommi A. Karhela Jari Lappalainen Valeriy Vyatkin |
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Automatic Generation of a High-Fidelity Dynamic Thermal-Hydraulic Process Simulation Model From a 3D Plant Model |
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Automatic Generation of a High-Fidelity Dynamic Thermal-Hydraulic Process Simulation Model From a 3D Plant Model |
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Automatic Generation of a High-Fidelity Dynamic Thermal-Hydraulic Process Simulation Model From a 3D Plant Model |
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Automatic Generation of a High-Fidelity Dynamic Thermal-Hydraulic Process Simulation Model From a 3D Plant Model |
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Automatic Generation of a High-Fidelity Dynamic Thermal-Hydraulic Process Simulation Model From a 3D Plant Model |
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automatic generation of a high-fidelity dynamic thermal-hydraulic process simulation model from a 3d plant model |
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Dynamic thermal-hydraulic simulation models have been extensively used by process industry for decision support in sectors, such as power generation, mineral processing, pulp and paper, and oil and gas. Ever-growing competitiveness in the process industry forces experts to rely even more on dynamic simulation results to take decisions across the process plant lifecycle. However, time-consuming development of simulation models increases model generation costs, limiting their use in a wider number of applications. Detailed 3-D plant models, developed during early plant engineering for process design, could potentially be used as a source of information to enable rapid development of high-fidelity simulation models. This paper presents a method for automatic generation of a thermal-hydraulic process simulation model from a 3-D plant model. Process structure, dimensioning, and component connection information included in the 3-D plant model are extracted from the machine-readable export of the 3-D design tool and used to automatically generate and configure a dynamic thermal-hydraulic simulation model. In particular, information about the piping dimensions and elevations is retrieved from the 3-D plant model and used to calculate head loss coefficients of the pipelines and configure the piping network model. This step, not considered in previous studies, is crucial for obtaining high-fidelity industrial process models. The proposed method is tested using a laboratory process, and the results of the automatically generated model are compared with experimental data from the physical system as well as with a simulation model developed using design data utilized by existing methods on the state of the art. Results show that the proposed method is able to generate high-fidelity models that are able to accurately predict the targeted system, even during operational transients. |
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