Exergy analysis of industrial processes using AI techniques
Exergy analysis is a general method for efficiency analysis of systems and processes. The use of the exergy concept and the analysis of ultimate efficiencies of processes is more or less still limited to the academic world. There are several reasons why its industrial use is still limited. To overcome some of the difficulties in industrial application of exergy analysis, it was decided to develop a supporting computer program. The program is aimed specifically at the process industry and enables both experts and relatively unexperienced people on the subject to apply the concept of exergy in a convenient and easy manner. Also the benefits of knowledge based systems were investigated. The main function of the program is to calculate the efficiencies of a process. To assist the user in judging a process, these efficiencies will also be evaluated by means of comparison with similar existing processes. We are currently working on the first steps towards a Case Based Reasoning system. As a similarity function for processes, neural networks are employed.
exergy efficiency neural networks artificial intelligence (ai)