Petri net and expert system have become two main active fields in automation and artificial intelligence (AI). Combination of Expert system and Petri net has been studied for the application of chemical HAZOP, furthermore, a chemical HAZOP expert system based on Petri net is developed for the application of chemical HAZOP in a DMF recovery project for a company.
The first half of the dissertation presents the principle of Petri-HAZOP expert system, introduces the method of knowledge repr...