Control and Systems Engineering Department discusses M.Sc. thesis about

"Intelligent Control of a Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit in petroleum Refineries"

Control and Systems Engineering Department at the University of Technology discussed M.Sc. thesis about:

Intelligent Control of a Fluid Catalytic Cracking Unit in petroleum Refineries

The thesis of the student Ghada Adnan Miteb, specializing in control engineering, included the development of the oil industry, which is considered one of the most important economies in the world. This is done by achieving high quality of the product. Therefore, there is a need to control the most important units in petroleum refineries by controlling the temperature of the product, which is the catalytic cracking unit. For FCCU fluids, the Firefly algorithm is used to find the best parameter values for the two types of controllers. The design of the second controller consists of two NPID controllers and two PDLT2 controllers. This design aims to compensate for disturbances and uncertainty in the FCCU. The reactor temperature overrun in the simulation results is reduced by 90% and the regenerator temperature overrun is reduced by 85% compared to the results shown in Reference 20. The inherent coupling, uncertainty, chatter and nonlinearity in the FCCU are handled by this type of controller. All these results were obtained by MATLAB2020b.

The discussion committee consisted of:-

Prof. Dr. Amjad Jalil Hamidi, / The Head

 Assist. Prof. Dr. Ammar Ibrahim Majeed /Member

Assist. Prof. Dr. Laila Hatem Abboud / Member