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Each operation unit capacity is assumed to be designable within an upper and lower boundary to accommodate for any considered production rate. The product demand forecasts are given for a ten year horizon. The costs are represented by power functions which vary in terms of capacity exponents and hence different investment decisions for the process units are expected. The capacity exponents (c.f Table 1) for the cost functions are taken from Peters and Timmerhaus [5]. For the piecewise linear approximation of the cost function, two time intervals are considered as default. Due to maximum capacity restrictions, the overall capacity of the reactor and the product absorption unit is achieved by an installation of at least three parallel reactors and two... 

Time interval between default and the recovery value being realized. 

Oversimplified in the above example, the occurrence of a default is actually a Poisson process, with the occurrence of a default in time interval u governed by hazard function X(u), which defines the instantaneous default rate at any point in time du. The probability of survival to time t, according to the Poisson distribution, is... 

The timescale in Figure 7.26b is fairly small. To get good-looking plots, the plot time interval must be reduced from the default value of 0.01 h. Aspen Dynamics calls this parameter Communication Time, and it can be accessed by going to top toolbar in the Aspen Dynamics window and selecting Run and Run Options. A window opens on which Communication Time can be set. A value of 0.0005 h was used to get the plots shown in Figure 7.26b. This parameter does not affect the results of a dynamic simulation, except for slowing it down somewhat. It only affects the appearance of plots. 

Note that the Matlab ODE solver is given three arguments the function evaluating the right-hand side of the differential eqnation, the time interval to integrate over, and the initial conditions. The first line of code (opts) sets the relative error tolerance to le-4 (default is le-3). This line is followed by a command which calls the ode45 solver, and specifies that the differential equation is specified in the m-file. Fmther, the command also specifies that the ODE should be solved in the interval 0-1 and at the initial condition yo = 1 - The third line is just used to plot the solution in a graph. 

In order to monitor the solution, the nprint variable of the pdeivbvQ routine is set to nonzero on line 4. This results in printed ouq)Ut such as the selected output which prints the maximum number of Newton iterations required to solve the set of equations for each time interval. For example for the 0 to 10 time interval, the maximum number of Newton iterations is printed as 12. The default number of time steps between the saved values is 10, so transient solutions were obtained for time values of 0, 1,2,.. 10 and the largest number of Newton iterations taken for... 

Test frequencies calculated from PFD Sensors Use proven test interval or use default Mean Time to Failure (MTTF) from publications for PFD calculations Use proven test interval or use default MTTF from publications for PFD calculations Unless known, use default MTTF from publications for PFD calculations... 

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