LAYOUT APPARATUS AND THE METHOD OF PLANT USING KNOWLEDGE BASED IN PIPE ROUTING

摘要

The present invention provides a plant FEED that provides an optimal piping layout path for detailed design while minimizing the cost of the piping by evaluating the piping costs and constraint violations through knowledge-based rules, The present invention relates to an apparatus and method for arranging a plant by creating a piping route using a knowledge base that enables efficient overall design. The plant layout apparatus 100 includes a design library DB 110 for storing a plant design model, equipment, piping type, and equipment relationship information into a equipment design library. A knowledge base rule DB unit 120 for storing a knowledge base rule for plant piping arrangement; The plant design model for the design target plant is imported from the design library DB unit 110 to generate and display an Axis-Aligned Bounding Box (AABB), and the optimized plant An interface unit 130 for visualizing and displaying boundary boxes, lines and nodes of the design model; And an optimization unit 140 for generating a plant design model optimized by applying a 3D grid-based A * algorithm to the design model of the design target plant, by applying cost minimization, band minimization, and knowledge base rules .