Development of a Machine Learning-based Soft Sensor for an Oil Refinery’s Distillation Column. Ferreira, J., Pedemonte, M., & Torres, A. I. Computers & Chemical Engineering, March, 2022.
Development of a Machine Learning-based Soft Sensor for an Oil Refinery’s Distillation Column [link]Paper  doi  abstract   bibtex   
In this paper, a machine learning framework based on Kaizen Programming is proposed for building a soft-sensor using real historical data from an oil refinery. The soft-sensor estimates the composition of C4 hydrocarbons in the distillate stream of a splitter column. Kaizen Programming is a novel technique that has shown excellent results for symbolic regression problems without requiring a priori selection of the functional bases. The framework follows three different steps: pre-processing of the data, model building with the selected algorithm, and ensemble of different good-fitting models. The final ensemble model accurately predicts operation of the column at and between two steady states, outperforming the model based on Gaussian Process in both validation and soft-sensor degradation scenarios.
@article{ferreira_development_2022,
	title = {Development of a {Machine} {Learning}-based {Soft} {Sensor} for an {Oil} {Refinery}’s {Distillation} {Column}},
	issn = {0098-1354},
	url = {https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0098135422000977},
	doi = {10.1016/j.compchemeng.2022.107756},
	abstract = {In this paper, a machine learning framework based on Kaizen Programming is proposed for building a soft-sensor using real historical data from an oil refinery. The soft-sensor estimates the composition of C4 hydrocarbons in the distillate stream of a splitter column. Kaizen Programming is a novel technique that has shown excellent results for symbolic regression problems without requiring a priori selection of the functional bases. The framework follows three different steps: pre-processing of the data, model building with the selected algorithm, and ensemble of different good-fitting models. The final ensemble model accurately predicts operation of the column at and between two steady states, outperforming the model based on Gaussian Process in both validation and soft-sensor degradation scenarios.},
	language = {en},
	urldate = {2022-03-16},
	journal = {Computers \& Chemical Engineering},
	author = {Ferreira, Jimena and Pedemonte, Martín and Torres, Ana Inés},
	month = mar,
	year = {2022},
	keywords = {Kaizen Programming, Machine Learning, Modeling from real data, Soft sensor, Surrogate models, mentions sympy},
	pages = {107756},
}

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