HYDROPTICS

HYDROPTICS aims to develop reliable, cost-effective, and high-accuracy monitoring of produced water quality involved in up- and downstream processing in oil industry, by making an extensive use of novel mid-IR light sources. It will also elaborate how data provided by these advanced sensors can be combined with readily available process data, and a digital twin of the process apparatus to gain in-depth process understanding. Digitalisation of process data, data fusion, machine learning and artificial intelligence shall enable a new level of process optimization yielding high and constant product quality despite fluctuating process conditions.