Holistic optimization of a dynamic cross-flow filtration process towards a cyber-physical system

Cyber-physical production systems have emerged with the rise of Industry 4.0 in different industrial fields. Especially the food sector, where inhomogeneous input products like beer/yeast suspensions with different qualities and properties have yet slowed down automation, has potential for this evolution. This contribution presents optimization methods for a dynamical cross-flow filtration plant which is driven by an advanced control concept in combination with data driven product monitoring via inline near infrared spectroscopy (NIR) in order to improve energy savings and filtration performance. Using a hierarchical control and optimization structure, the non stationary batch process is steered towards a high production rate with low energy consumption for a variety of different input products.