Modelling and Analysis of a Batch Plant Using Petri Nets

Petri nets have widely been applied in different aspect of modelling, qualitative, quantitative analysis, supervisory and coordinate control, scheduling, planning, and hybrid system design of batch processes. The paper presents an example which shows how to use Petri nets to model and analysis a realistic batch plant. The modular modelling method is adopted to model a real batch processing plant with Petri nets The system properties, such as liveness, boundedness, and reversibility can be proofed by analysing each subnet. The combined Petri net model also preserves these properties. The techniques are very useful and can be also used to model the complicated batch plants.

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