Process Flow Diagram of an Ammonia Plant as a Complex Network

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2005-04-25

arxiv.org/abs/physics/0504177v2

AIChE Journal 53, 423-428 (2007)

Physics

Biological Physics

15 pages including 4 eps figures

Scientific paper

10.1002/aic.11071

Complex networks have attracted increasing interests in almost all disciplines of natural and social sciences. However, few efforts have been afforded in the field of chemical engineering. We present in this work an example of complex technological network, investigating the process flow of an ammonia plant (AP). We show that the AP network is a small-world network with scale-free distribution of degrees. Adopting Newman's maximum modularity algorithm for the detection of communities in complex networks, evident modular structures are identified in the AP network, which stem from the modular sections in chemical plants. In addition, we find that the resultant AP tree exhibits excellent allometric scaling.

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