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Hauptverfasser: Patra, Debadutta, Tripathy, Ayush Bardhan, Sahu, Soumya Ranjan, Panda, Sucheta
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Veröffentlicht: 2026
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Online-Zugang:https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24644
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author Patra, Debadutta
Tripathy, Ayush Bardhan
Sahu, Soumya Ranjan
Panda, Sucheta
author_facet Patra, Debadutta
Tripathy, Ayush Bardhan
Sahu, Soumya Ranjan
Panda, Sucheta
contents Digital twin technology, when combined with physics-informed machine learning with simulation results of Aspen, offers transformative capabilities for industrial process monitoring, control, and optimization. In this work, the proposed model presents a Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) digital twin framework for the dynamic, tray-wise modeling of binary distillation columns operating under transient conditions. The architecture of the proposed model embeds fundamental thermodynamic constraints, including vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) described by modified Raoult's law, tray-level mass and energy balances, and the McCabe-Thiele graphical methodology directly into the neural network loss function via physics residual terms. The model is trained and evaluated on a high-fidelity synthetic dataset of 961 timestamped measurements spanning 8 hours of transient operation, generated in Aspen HYSYS for a binary HX/TX distillation system comprising 16 sensor streams. An adaptive loss-weighting scheme balances the data fidelity and physics consistency objectives during training. Compared to five data-driven baselines (LSTM, vanilla MLP, GRU, Transformer, DeepONet), the proposed PINN achieves an RMSE of 0.00143 for HX mole fraction prediction (R^2 = 0.9887), representing a 44.6% reduction over the best data-only baseline, while strictly satisfying thermodynamic constraints. Tray-wise temperature and composition profiles predicted under transient perturbations demonstrate that the digital twin accurately captures column dynamics including feed tray responses, reflux ratio variations, and pressure transients. These results establish the proposed PINN digital twin as a robust foundation for real-time soft sensing, model-predictive control, and anomaly detection in industrial distillation processes.
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spellingShingle Physics-Informed Neural Network Digital Twin for Dynamic Tray-Wise Modeling of Distillation Columns under Transient Operating Conditions
Patra, Debadutta
Tripathy, Ayush Bardhan
Sahu, Soumya Ranjan
Panda, Sucheta
Machine Learning
Digital twin technology, when combined with physics-informed machine learning with simulation results of Aspen, offers transformative capabilities for industrial process monitoring, control, and optimization. In this work, the proposed model presents a Physics-Informed Neural Network (PINN) digital twin framework for the dynamic, tray-wise modeling of binary distillation columns operating under transient conditions. The architecture of the proposed model embeds fundamental thermodynamic constraints, including vapor-liquid equilibrium (VLE) described by modified Raoult's law, tray-level mass and energy balances, and the McCabe-Thiele graphical methodology directly into the neural network loss function via physics residual terms. The model is trained and evaluated on a high-fidelity synthetic dataset of 961 timestamped measurements spanning 8 hours of transient operation, generated in Aspen HYSYS for a binary HX/TX distillation system comprising 16 sensor streams. An adaptive loss-weighting scheme balances the data fidelity and physics consistency objectives during training. Compared to five data-driven baselines (LSTM, vanilla MLP, GRU, Transformer, DeepONet), the proposed PINN achieves an RMSE of 0.00143 for HX mole fraction prediction (R^2 = 0.9887), representing a 44.6% reduction over the best data-only baseline, while strictly satisfying thermodynamic constraints. Tray-wise temperature and composition profiles predicted under transient perturbations demonstrate that the digital twin accurately captures column dynamics including feed tray responses, reflux ratio variations, and pressure transients. These results establish the proposed PINN digital twin as a robust foundation for real-time soft sensing, model-predictive control, and anomaly detection in industrial distillation processes.
title Physics-Informed Neural Network Digital Twin for Dynamic Tray-Wise Modeling of Distillation Columns under Transient Operating Conditions
topic Machine Learning
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.24644