US 12,416,912 B2Granted

Communication system, monitoring system and related methods

AssigneesBASF SE, Trinamix GmbH

InventorsKai Uwe Binder, Georg Sieder, Wolfgang Ferstl, Torsten Katz, Gerd Modes, Wilfried Hermes, Felix Schmidt, Michel Valentin Kettner, Jochen Brill, Christoph Lungenschmied

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Abstract

Disclosed herein are a communication system, a monitoring system for in-situ monitoring of a substance used in a gas scrubbing process, and related methods. The monitoring system can be used to monitor the at least one substance and provide treatment data for treating the at least one substance. The communication system includes a cloud server, a first server, a second server, and a third server. The first and second servers respectively include first and second communication interfaces configured to provide spectral information to the cloud server. The cloud server is configured to generate a calibration model including at least one parameter; apply the calibration model to the spectral information provided by the second server, whereby at least one value for the at least one parameter is extracted; and provide the at least one value for the at least one parameter to the first server via the first communication interface.

Claims17

Dependent claims

A communication system comprising a cloud server, a first server, at least one second server, and at least one third server;

wherein the first server comprises a processor and a memory storing instructions and connected to the processor of the first server, wherein the first server further comprises a first communication interface configured to provide reference spectral information referring to at least one reference sample and reference analytical data to the cloud server;
wherein each second server comprises a processor and a memory storing instructions and connected to the processor of the second server, wherein each second server comprises a second communication interface configured to provide spectral information related to at least one substance to the cloud server, wherein the at least one substance is used in a gas scrubbing process;
wherein each third server comprises a processor and a memory storing instructions and connected to the processor of the third server,
wherein the cloud server is configured to:
generate a calibration model by using the reference spectral information referring to the at least one reference sample and the reference analytical data provided by the first server, wherein the calibration model comprises at least one parameter;
apply the calibration model to the spectral information related to the at least one substance provided by the second server, whereby at least one value for the at least one parameter is extracted;
and
provide the at least one value for the at least one parameter to the first server via the first communication interface;
wherein the first server is further configured to determine treatment data by using the at least one value for the at least one parameter provided by the cloud server, wherein the treatment data comprise at least one piece of data which is related to a proposed treatment of the at least one substance;
wherein the first server further comprises at least one third communication interface, wherein each third communication interface is configured to provide the treatment data to the at least one third server;
and
wherein the at least one substance is treated using the treatment data.

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A computer-implemented method for operating a communication system, the communication system comprising a cloud server, a first server, at least one second server, and at least one third server, wherein the method comprises:

a) providing reference spectral information referring to at least one reference sample and reference analytical data from the first server via a first communication interface to the cloud server;
b) generating a calibration model in the cloud server by using the reference spectral information referring to the at least one reference sample and the reference analytical data, wherein the calibration model comprises at least one parameter;
c) providing spectral information related to at least one substance from the second server via a second communication interface to the cloud server, wherein the at least one substance is used in a gas scrubbing process;
d) applying the calibration model in the cloud server to the spectral information related to the at least one substance, whereby at least one value for the at least one parameter is extracted;
e) providing the at least one value for the at least one parameter to the first server via the first communication interface;
f) determining treatment data by using the at least one value for the at least one parameter provided by the cloud server to the first server, wherein the treatment data comprise at least one piece of data which is related to a proposed treatment of the at least one substance;
g) providing the treatment data from the first server via a third communication interface to the third server;
and
h) treating the at least one substance using the treatment data.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 17/906,398Filed 17 Mar 2021
Priority: EP 2016394218 Mar 2020
Published: US 2023/0125347 A127 Apr 2023
Granted: 16 Sep 2025
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification18 codes

G05B 19/41875
Total factory control, i.e. centrally controlling a plurality of machines, e.g. direct or distributed numerical control [DNC], flexible…:…
G01J 3/0264
Details: electrical interface; User interface
G01J 3/28
Spectrometry; Spectrophotometry; Monochromators; Measuring colours: investigating the spectrum
G01N 21/274
Using photo-electric detection ; circuits for computing concentration: calibration, base line adjustment, drift correction