Introduction
As an essential material and an important part of the petrochemical industry, coking has become indispensable for chemical production. The coking industry relies heavily on manual labor, long operation times and low labor productivity, and is a major source of environmental pollution. With the development of chemical technology, automatic control technology and computer technology, the coking industry has made significant progress in the automation of the coking production process, and the development of automatic control technology has effectively improved the automation level of the coking industry and improved the production efficiency and environmental protection.
Main body
1. Benefits of the automation of coking production procees
(1) High production efficiency and low energy consumption. Automation of coking production process can improve production efficiency, saving a lot of electricity and fuel consumption, reduce material, reduce worker cost and other losses, and improve production efficiency.
(2) Improve the products quality. The automation of the coking production process can reduce the possibility of human factors involved in the coking process, and ensure quick reaction, lower cost and better product quality.
(3) Enhance the safety performance of the plant. Automating the coking production process can reduce the possible accidents caused by the manual operation of the process, reducing the risk of safety accidents.
2. Obstacles to the automation of coking production process
(1) Higher operating costs. Automation of the coking production process involves equipment configuration, installation, etc., and the cost is relatively high, and the cost of operation is also high, resulting in higher operating costs.
(2) Technical problems. Since the coking production process is complicated, there are a lot of complicated data and parameters, which can not be accurately obtained without the reliable process modeling and parameters tuning, making the automation of the process difficult.
(3) Instability of process parameters. The coking process parameters are constantly changing, the temperature, pressure, production speed and various operating parameters are often in a state of change, automatic control is more difficult than manual control under such conditions.
Conclusion
Automation of the coking production process has its advantages and disadvantages. On the one hand, it can greatly improve the production efficiency of the plant, reduce the energy consumption and production cost, ensure the uniformity and quality of the product, and greatly improve the safety factor; on the other hand, the operating costs are relatively large, the technology is relatively backward, and the process parameters are unstable, etc. Therefore, in the process of automatic control of coking production process, we should pay attention to strive for better optimization.
