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Spring 2019
In the oil sands extraction process, bitumen (crude oil) is separated from the sands in the Primary Separation Vessel (PSV) through a water-based gravity separation process. The interface between froth (crude oil) and middlings (water and sand) is the most important control variable in the PSV...
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Machine Learning for Robust Tracking of Interface Level Inside a Primary Separation Vessel in the Presence of Occlusions and Noise
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A Primary Separation Vessel (PSV), used in the oil sands industry, is an important process equipment, where Bitumen is separated from the oil sand using a density based separation process. The interface level between a bitumen rich layer (froth) and a layer that has moderate amounts of bitumen in...
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Spring 2020
Reinforcement learning (RL) has received wide attention in various fields lately. Model-free RL brings data-driven solutions that learn the control strategy directly from interaction with process data without the need for a process model. This is especially beneficial in the case of nonlinear...