Article: Modelling and control of engineering plant processes Journal: International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies (IJASS) 2018 Vol.8 No.3 pp.255 - 277 Abstract: With increasing scale and complexity of networked applications, the concept of system of systems has recently emerged. This paper introduces a new systems engineering approach that can be utilised uniformly to represent integrated static descriptions of systems and their behaviours along with control specifications. It avoids the multiplicity of views associated with object-oriented techniques. Its ontology is simpler in that it incorporates only a few notions: things, flows, and their stages and triggering. This paper demonstrates the advantages of the proposed modelling technique by producing a high-level systematic specification (comparable to such tools as process flow diagrams) and using this model to depict the management and control of a system. To demonstrate the viability of the model, it is applied to developing a diagrammatic description of processes in a water distillation plant. Inderscience Publishers - linking academia, business and industry through research

Title: Modelling and control of engineering plant processes

Authors: Sabah Al-Fedaghi; Abdulaziz AlQallaf

Addresses: Computer Engineering Department, Kuwait University, P.O. Box 5969 Safat 13060, Kuwait ' Information Technology Department, Kuwait National Petroleum Company (KNPC), Al Ahmadi, Kuwait

Abstract: With increasing scale and complexity of networked applications, the concept of system of systems has recently emerged. This paper introduces a new systems engineering approach that can be utilised uniformly to represent integrated static descriptions of systems and their behaviours along with control specifications. It avoids the multiplicity of views associated with object-oriented techniques. Its ontology is simpler in that it incorporates only a few notions: things, flows, and their stages and triggering. This paper demonstrates the advantages of the proposed modelling technique by producing a high-level systematic specification (comparable to such tools as process flow diagrams) and using this model to depict the management and control of a system. To demonstrate the viability of the model, it is applied to developing a diagrammatic description of processes in a water distillation plant.

Keywords: conceptual model; schematic diagrams; process engineering; process flow diagram; engineering system high level description.

DOI: 10.1504/IJASS.2018.096122

International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies, 2018 Vol.8 No.3, pp.255 - 277

Received: 28 Aug 2017
Accepted: 03 May 2018
Published online: 12 Nov 2018 *

Title: Modelling and control of engineering plant processes

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