TY - CHAP A1 - Grote-Ramm, Wolfgang A1 - Schönig, Felix A1 - Schwarzbözl, Peter A1 - Drexelius, Maximilian A1 - Maldonado Quinto, Daniel A1 - Binder, Matthias T1 - Model Predictive Control and Service Life Monitoring for Molten Salt Solar Power Towers T2 - 29th SolarPACES Conference, Sydney N2 - A two-component system for control and monitoring of solar power towers with molten salt receivers is proposed. The control component consists of a model predictive control applica-tion (MPC) with a flexible objective function and on-line tunable weights, which runs on a In-dustrial PC and uses a reduced order dynamic model of the receiver’s thermal and flow dy-namics. The second component consists of a service-life monitoring unit, which estimates the service-life consumption of the absorber tubes depending on the current mode of operation based on thermal stresses and creep fatigue in the high temperature regime. The calculation of stresses is done based on a detailed finite element study, in which a digital twin of the re-ceiver was developed. By parallelising the model solver, the estimation of service-life con-sumption became capable of real-time operation. The system has been implemented at a test facility in Jülich, Germany, and awaits field experiments. In this paper, the modeling and archi-tecture are presented along simulation results, which were validated on a hardware-in-the-loop test bench. The MPC showed good disturbance rejection while respecting process variable constraints during the simulation studies. KW - Solar Power Tower KW - Molten Salt KW - Model Predictive Control KW - Dynamic Modelling KW - Service-life Monitoring Y1 - 2023 N1 - Eingereichter Beitrag ER - TY - RPRT A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Kretschmar, Dominik A1 - Plagge, Christoph T1 - Auf einen gemeinsamen Nenner gebracht? – Reporting der Treibhausgas-Emissionen der Logistikunternehmen in Deutschland T3 - Working Papers in Industrial Engineering - 6 KW - Logistik KW - Nachhaltigkeit KW - Treibhausgasemissionen Y1 - 2024 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-43130 SN - 2627-8375 CY - Düsseldorf ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Schramm, Alexander A1 - Kruger, Karl A1 - Niemann, Jörg A1 - Grote, Wolfgang ED - Dimitrov, Dimiter ED - Hagedorn-Hansen, Devon ED - Leipzig, Karl von T1 - Possibilities, Limitations and Considerations for Eye Tracking in Industrial Environments: Experience from a Case Study T2 - International Conference on Competitive Manufacturing (COMA 19) proceedings : 30 January 2019-1 February 2019, Stellenbosch, South Africa N2 - Eye tracking is a measurement technique for determining the orientation and viewing direction of an individual’s eyes. It allows for an evaluation of the individual’s gaze and other related information.There is a wide variety of application areas for eye tracking, however the usage in engineeringindustry is still limited. This paper presents a case study for the use of eye tracking in a testingstation for electrical circuit breakers. The case study aims to evaluate the measurement and analysispossible with the Tobii wearable eye tracking system. From the case study, possibilities, limitationsand considerations for eye tracking in industrial settings are identified and discussed. The paperconcludes that while eye tracking can be used to effectively capture and visualize insightfulinformation, it faces major challenges related to subjectivity in analysis and labour intensiveness. KW - Eye Tracking Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-0-7972-1779-9 SP - 390 EP - 396 PB - Department of Industrial Engineering, Stellenbosch University CY - Stellenbosch ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Beckers, Sebastian A1 - Pawlik, Julian A1 - Kiel, Jürgen A1 - Grote, Wolfgang T1 - Simulation von Partikelflugbahnen zur Auslegungshilfe von elektrostatischen Luftfiltern T2 - Tagungsband: ASIM Workshop 2019 - Simulation Technischer Systeme Grundlagen und Methoden in Modellbildung und Simulation, 21.-22. Februar 2019, Braunschweig Y1 - 2019 SN - 978-3-901608-06-3 U6 - https://doi.org/10.11128/arep.57 SP - 147 EP - 152 PB - ARGESIM, ASIM CY - Wien ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Grote-Ramm, Wolfgang A1 - Schönig, Felix T1 - Model Predictive Control of Solar Receivers T2 - 25th Cologne Solar Colloquium (DLR) Y1 - 2022 UR - https://www.dlr.de/sf/PortalData/73/Resources/dokumente/soko/soko2022/DLR_Solar_Colloquium_2022_Model_Predictive_Control_GROTE-RAMM.pdf ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Grote-Ramm, Wolfgang A1 - Lanuschny, David A1 - Lorenzen, Finn A1 - Oliveira Brito, Marcel A1 - Schönig, Felix T1 - Continual learning for neural regression networks to cope with concept drift in industrial processes using convex optimisation JF - Engineering Applications of Artificial Intelligence N2 - Process models in industrial applications, e.g. predictive maintenance or automation, are subject to both divergence from the underlying system due to their time-variant nature and to high complexity resulting from a wide operational range being covered. Hence, regression models require high accuracy for the present system state and at the same time need to be valid across the whole system operating space. While accuracy for the current system state can be gained by updating the model on the current data, the overall validity must often be retrieved from historical or design data. We propose a method to find an appropriate compromise for these two demands. A pre-trained artificial neural network (ANN) is continually updated on the current sensor data stream using convex optimisation. Thus, a unique and optimal solution is generated in each update step, while robust regression accuracy on the domain that is not covered by the arriving data subset is maintained. This is achieved by introducing a data management system to provide some historical data, constraining the optimisation problem and manipulating the architecture of the ANN. Models updated with this method show reasonable stability but display plastic behaviour at the current operating point. KW - Continual learning KW - Concept drift KW - Catastrophic forgetting KW - Convex optimization Y1 - 2023 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.engappai.2023.105927 SN - 1873-6769 VL - 120 PB - Elsevier CY - New York ER - TY - CHAP A1 - Lorenzen, Finn A1 - Schönig, Felix A1 - Grote-Ramm, Wolfgang A1 - Oliveira Brito, Marcel A1 - Neuberger, Heiko A1 - Sobolyev, Alexander T1 - Continual Adaptation of Compressor Maps During Operation on Measurement Data For Increased Performance of Model-Based Applications in Turbomachinery T2 - ASME Turbo Expo 2023: Turbomachinery Technical Conference and Exposition, June 26–30, 2023 Boston, Massachusetts, USA N2 - Higher control engineering concepts, including artificial intelligence and model-based control, are recently becoming more popular in complex industrial applications because they enable a significant increase in efficiency. E.g., a model-based approach can be used to enhance the control and monitoring of several coupled components of a larger turbomachinery train. This requires dynamic models of the components, including all machine characteristics, which may experience a shift in their behavior over the course of their lifetime. Such changes occur due to natural fouling, wear of sub-components or external effects induced by maintenance measures. To overcome this problem, we model machine-characteristic maps with artificial neural networks, which may be used as part of prediction models in a model predictive control unit. If an appropriate data set is available, this allows us to adapt the model to the current behavior of the machine without requiring in-depth knowledge about the underlying physics of this “concept drift”, as it is known in literature. However, the training of neural networks is usually connected with high computational effort while the task needs to be executed in real-time during operation. Furthermore, in real operating conditions, machine sensors can only provide labeled data from the current operating point of the machine, which can be stationary for long operation periods of up to several months. In general, this yields only an unrepresentative data subset of the machine-characteristics, which is not sufficient to retrain the whole model to a new state. To solve these problems, we firstly reduce the model adaptation to a convex optimization problem, which can be efficiently solved in real-time conditions. Secondly, we use a specialized data management system with which we can integrate historical data to supplement the unrepresentative data subset. In this paper we show the application of the outlined method on a compressor map and discuss the advantages and requirements of the method in the context of modeling applications for industrial turbomachinery. KW - compressors KW - Intelligent control KW - Neural networks KW - Modeling Y1 - 2023 SN - 978-0-7918-8697-7 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1115/GT2023-103458 VL - Volume 4 SP - 1 EP - 7 PB - ASME CY - Boston ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Mandal, Dipak Kumar A1 - Biswas, Nirmalendu A1 - Manna, Nirmal K A1 - Benim, Ali Cemal T1 - Impact of chimney divergence and sloped absorber on energy efficacy of a solar chimney power plant (SCPP) JF - Ain Shams Engineering Journal N2 - A numerical study is carried out meticulously to scrutinize the impact of different shapes of chimneys like circular (outer dia, dc), convergent (outer dia, 0.5dc), divergent (outer dia, 1.5dc), sudden contraction (outer dia, 0.5dc), and sudden expansion (outer dia, 1.5dc) on the performance of an SCPP. Furthermore, the parametric impact with different chimney divergence angles (CDA, ϕ), and ground absorber slope angle (GSA, γ) on the SCPP performance is also scrutinized. Optimum divergence angle (ϕ=+0.75◦) enhances the power generation up to ~ 47% (76 kW) with a horizontal ground absorber surface. An increase or decrease in CDA lessens the power generation. With a sloped ground absorber angle γ=0.6◦, the gain in power generation is 60% (82 kW). The study of combination of ground sloped absorber (γ=0.6◦) and divergent chimney (ϕ=+0.75◦) shows enhancement of the power generation upto 80% (92 kW) more than the classical Manzaranes plant. KW - Solar chimney power plant (SCPP) KW - Chimney divergence angle KW - Sloped absorber surface KW - Power generation KW - Efficiency KW - Regression analysis Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-42410 SN - 2090-4495 N1 - Datenverfügbarkeitserklärung: Daten, die die Ergebnisse dieser wissenschaftlichen Publikation stützen, sind auf begründete Anfrage bei dem*der korrespondierenden Autor*in erhältlich. PB - Elsevier ER - TY - GEN A1 - Deckert, Carsten A1 - Phan Ngoc, Duc Anh T1 - PlayStation 4 vs. Xbox One: Competitive Analysis of the Video Game Industry T3 - Business Cases in Industrial Engineering - 3 KW - Business Case KW - Strategy KW - Delta Model KW - Video Game Industry Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-41142 CY - Düsseldorf ER - TY - GEN A1 - Deckert, Carsten T1 - Now What You Hear Is Not a Test: The Invention and Commercialization of Rap Music T3 - Business Cases in Industrial Engineering - 2 KW - Business Case KW - Musikindustrie KW - Entrepreneurship KW - Innovation Y1 - 2023 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:hbz:due62-opus-41134 CY - Düsseldorf ER -