Scalable reinforcement learning for plant-wide control of vinyl acetate monomer process

Biochemical and Histopathological Effects of Acute Exposure to Vinyl Acetate Monomer Vapour in Wistar Rats

Background: Vinyl acetate monomer is a commodity chemical widely used in the manufacturing of various products. The chemical is hazardous and exposure to it may occur in both occupational and non-occupational settings. The aim of this study was to characterize the effects of short-term exposure to Vinyl Acetate Monomer (VAM) vapour on the liver and lungs of Wistar rats. Methods: Mice weighing ...

Plant-Wide Neurocontrol of the Tennessee Eastman Challenge Process Using Evolutionary Reinforcement Learning

The Tennessee Eastman (TE) Control Challenge proposed by Downs and Vogel [1] is a test bed problem for use in evaluating advanced process control methodologies from a plant-wide perspective. The dynamic model for the process (based on an actual industrial process) integrates the operation of five unit operations; viz. an exothermic, two-phase reactor, a partial condenser, a centrifugal compress...

Scalable lifelong reinforcement learning

Lifelong reinforcement learning provides a successful framework for agents to learn multiple consecutive tasks sequentially. Current methods, however, suffer from scalability issues when the agent has to solve a large number of tasks. In this paper, we remedy the above drawbacks and propose a novel scalable technique for lifelong reinforcement learning. We derive an algorithm which assumes the ...

Vinyl Acetate

Reinforcement Learning Based PID Control of Wind Energy Conversion Systems

In this paper an adaptive PID controller for Wind Energy Conversion Systems (WECS) has been developed. Theadaptation technique applied to this controller is based on Reinforcement Learning (RL) theory. Nonlinearcharacteristics of wind variations as plant input, wind turbine structure and generator operational behaviordemand for high quality adaptive controller to ensure both robust stability an...