ROBOTIC-AUTOMATED CONTROL SYSTEM FOR THE PRODUCTION OF SCHAEFFER’S ACID
The production of Schaeffer’s acid, like most of the chemical and related industries, is characterized by extreme working conditions, for example, raw materials, finished products can be toxic, have mutagenic and carcinogenic properties, which make the work of people extremely dangerous for their lives and health. Therefore, production data requires making decisions to minimize the maintenance personnel, i.e. replacing people with the work of automated systems using subsystems of mobile robotic laboratory assistants. The inefficiency (low conversion and productivity) of the technological process for the production of Schaeffer’s acid, the random nature of the change in the granulometric composition of 2-naphthol, make it necessary to formulate the problem of optimizing the production of Schaeffer’s acid, the solution of which, with a given guarantee, ensured the fulfillment of technological and technical restrictions. The article discusses the application of the theory of solving problems of guaranteed optimization and synthesis of a robotic-automated system in solving problems of controlling the production of Schaeffer’s acid. The results of solving the problem of optimizing the production of Schaeffer’s acid in a microwave reactor on the basis of soft calculations are stated and presented. A hierarchical control system for the technological process of Schaeffer’s acid production has been developed with a robot-laboratory assistant subsystem designed for operational control of the sulfuric acid concentration and the content of by-products. The structure of a robotic-automated control system for the production of Schaeffer’s acid has been developed. An algorithm for correcting the mathematical model was developed.