A PROTOTYPE KBS FOR RECIPE MANAGEMENT IN BATCH CHEMICAL PROCESSES

1A prototype knowledge-based system for recipe transformation and mana gement in batch chemical processes is presented in this paper. The sys tem, named as recipe management system (RMS), consists of a knowledge base, a data base, and an user interface. The basic architecture of th e RMS is described and two important issues, knowledge representation and natural language processing, are discussed. The aim of the system is to provide the process engineer a tool to simplify the recipe trans formation process and to help the control engineer to control the reci pe management activity. Object-oriented programming technique and key word analysis technique are employed in the RMS.