Identification of process bottlenecks with global sensitivity analysis, an application to papermaking processes

• Main Authors: Savolainen, Jouni, Lappalainen, Jari
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: bottleneck identification; global sensitivity analysis; simulation; sobol

The purpose of this work is to show that global sensitivity analysis combined with a process simulator can be used as a method of identifying process bottlenecks in the papermaking context. A variancedecomposition based Sobol' analysis is employed in three case studies with Aprosr Paper simulat...