Control output, material, and energy costs in spray drying processes, especially in milk and coffee production.
Minimize Powder Variation and Maximize Quality
Maximize product moisture content and maintain product quality while reducing specific energy consumption
Optimize use of drying capacities such as responding to ambient air humidity, optimize distribution between the dryer and fluidized beds
Coordinate the optimization of multiple units
Increase product yield or process throughput
Capture Process Data from Existing Automation Systems
Connect to virtually any control system including DCS and PLC
Integrate data capture, historicization, and trending
Enable custom calculations
Enable New Levels of Stability
Stabilize the output composition to reliably satisfy product specifications.
Understand process constraints and complex process interactions
Implement a mathematical model of process input/output dependencies to predict future process output trajectories
Multivariate correlation between variables and actuators, causes and effects
Predict the impact of known disturbances on the operation
Make coordinated moves on multiple actuators
Exploit all opportunities to push quality and/or throughput close to the constraint
Allow multivariable model-predictive dynamic control (MPC)
Facilitate steady-state economic optimization by a linear program (LP)
Establish inferential virtual sensor modeling via a neural network that enables continuous product quality measurement to calculate estimated values