ABSTRACT
MODELING A MODERN MARBLE PROCESSING PLANT BY USING
PETRI NET
Keser, Ö / zge
M. Sc., Department of Mining Engineering
Supervisor: Prof Dr. NeS&rsquo / e Ç / elebi
Co-Supervisor: Prof Dr. Tevfik Gü / yagü / ler
December 2003, 110 pages
All developing countries need sufficient raw material resources to develop
and to guarantee their future. Considering Turkish natural resources,
marble has a great importance because of its demand on the market,
reserve amount and quality. However, some effort is required to improve
the existing marble production and processing efficiency.
Petri nets (PNs) are the information models that control the flow for
concurrent and synchronous systems. In this regard, PN application can
be useful. However, its application is limited to the complex systems and
no application of PN is available in mining sector.
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In this sense, this study aims to examine the applicability of PN to mining.
This study examines the production system in order to optimize the
process in case of two different types of marble product orders. Three
case studies are applied to examine benefits and difficulties in
implementation of PN to a marble processing plant. The study shows that
PN can successfully be used as a tool for the optimization of total
production time, simulation and modeling of the system. It provides to see
the sequence of the processes, their time, remaining time of each
transition and optimum total production times. The difficulties of PN
implementation are found out as the determination of each path in the
reachability graph, matrix representation with large quantity of place, etc.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:METU/oai:etd.lib.metu.edu.tr:http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12604776/index.pdf |
| Date | 01 December 2003 |
| Creators | Keser, Ozge |
| Contributors | Celebi, Ne?e |
| Publisher | METU |
| Source Sets | Middle East Technical Univ. |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | M.S. Thesis |
| Format | text/pdf |
| Rights | To liberate the content for public access |
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