Optimized real-time soft analyzer for chemical process using artificial intelligence

This paper concerns application of data-derived approaches for analyzing and monitoring chemical process instruments, extracting product information, and designing estimation models for primary process variables, or difficult to measure in real-time variables. Modeling of process with an optimized classical neural network, the multi-layer perceptron (MLP) is discussed. Tennessee Eastman Process, a well-known plant wide process benchmark, is applied to validate the proposed approach. Investigations and several algorithms as step response test, Lipschitz number method and forward selection are used. The main advancement introduced here is that a hierarchical level responsible strategy is applied for selection of input variables and respective efficient time delays to attain the highest possible prediction accuracy of the neural network model for industrial process identification.