Separator Control Challenge
Educational simulatorNot for field operation or equipment sizing
Three-phase separator / operator briefing
Can you keep a three-phase separator stable?
Tune two PID control loops, survive realistic well-testing disturbances, and keep the process inside its safe operating envelope.
SEP-101 / NORMAL OPERATION / IDLE VISUAL
SEP-101 horizontal separator with gas, oil, and water. True total level 50.0 percent; measured total level 50.0 percent. True interface 20.0 percent; measured interface 20.0 percent. Total inlet 50.0 cubic metres per hour; oil outlet 35.0 cubic metres per hour; water outlet 15.0 cubic metres per hour. Actual oil valve 50.0 percent; actual water valve 50.0 percent. Safety: Normal operating envelope.
SEP-101 · engineering fallback
Separator process cutaway
- Total true
- 50.0%
- Total measured
- 50.0%
- Total SP
- 50.0%
- Interface true
- 20.0%
- Interface measured
- 20.0%
- Interface SP
- 20.0%
- Total inlet
- 50.0 m³/h
- Oil outlet
- 35.0 m³/h
- Water outlet
- 15.0 m³/h
- Oil command
- 50.0%
- Oil actual
- 50.0%
- Water command
- 50.0%
- Water actual
- 50.0%
- Active safety
- Normal operating envelope
2D engineering fallback · process values and safety logic remain fully active.
- 01Tune
Set the oil and water PID gains before the disturbance arrives.
- 02Survive
Read the coupled inventories and hold the safety envelope.
- 03Score
Finish a deterministic attempt and inspect the control response.
Project note / authorship
About this project
Separator Control Challenge is an independent educational project by Marcos Esteban Soto, combining well testing and industrial process control with ongoing work in machine learning and intelligent industrial systems.
Built with AI-assisted engineering using GPT-5.6 and Codex. Process assumptions, physical simplifications, control behavior, and educational content were defined and reviewed using engineering judgment.
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