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Diagnosis of Process Nonlinearities and Valve Stiction

Data Driven Approaches

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  • Analyses three important causes of performance deterioration common in process control and is of significant practical value in process plant troubleshooting
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Advances in Industrial Control (AIC)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Introduction

  2. Higher-Order Statistics

  3. Data Quality – Compression and Quantization

  4. Nonlinearity and Control Performance

  5. Control Valve Stiction~– Definition, Modelling, Detection and Quantification

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About this book

were published in the series as the contributed volume, Process Control Performance Assessment: From Theory to Implementation with Andrzej Ordys, Damian Uduehi, and Michael Johnson as Editors (ISBN 978-1-84628-623-0, 2007). Along with this good progress in process controller assessment methods, researchers have also been investigating techniques to diagnose what is causing the process or control loop degradation. This requires the use of on-line data to identify faults via new diagnostic indicators of typical process problems. A significant focus of some of this research has been the issue of valve problems; a research direction that has been motivated by some industrial statistics that show up to 40% of control loops having performance degradation attributable to valve problems. Shoukat Choudhury, Sirish Shah, and Nina Thornhill have been very active in this research field for a number of years and have written a coherent and consistent presentation of their many research results as this monograph, Diagnosis of Process Nonlinearities and Valve Stiction. The Advances in Industrial Control series is pleased to welcome this new and substantial contribution to the process diagnostic literature. The reader will find the exploitation of the extensive process data archives created by today’s process computer systems one theme in the monograph. From another viewpoint, the use of higher-order statistics could be considered to provide a continuing link to the earlier methods of the statistical process control paradigm.

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“This monograph is aimed at researchers and practicing engineers interested in the diagnosis of closed-loop system performance. The goal is to present techniques for monitoring the performance of continuous processes in the chemical industry using process data. The material consolidates in one place some recent results concerned with the detection, diagnosis, and quantification of process nonlinearities.” (IEEE Control Systems Magazine, Vol. 29, October, 2009)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Chemical Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka-1000, Bangladesh

    Shoukat M. A. A. Choudhury

  • Department Chemical&Materials Engineering, University of Alberta, Canada

    Sirish L. Shah

  • Department of Chemical Engineering, Imperial College London, South Kensington Campus, London

    Nina F. Thornhill

About the authors

M. A. A. Shoukat Choudhury received his B. Sc. Engineering (Chemical) from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology (BUET), Dhaka, Bangladesh in 1996. He was awarded a gold medal for his outstanding results in B. Sc. Engineering. He obtained an M. Sc. Engineering (Chemical) in 1998 from the same university. He has completed his PhD degree in process control (Chemical Engineering) at the University of Alberta, Canada. For his outstanding research performance during the course of PhD program he has been awarded several awards such as University of Alberta PhD Dissertation Fellowship, Andrew Stewart Memorial Prize and ISA Educational Foundation Scholarship. He is the principal inventor of an internation patent (applied, 2005) on "Methods for Detection and Quantification of Control Valve Stiction". The methodologies and algorithms described in this patent are implemented and available in the commercial software ProcessDoctor from Matrikon Inc. His main research interests include diagnosis of poor control performance, stiction in control valves, data compression, control loop performance assessment and monitoring, and diagnosis of plant wide oscillations.

Sirish Shah received his B.Sc. degree in control engineering from Leeds University in 1971, a M.Sc. degree in automatic control from UMIST, Manchester in 1972, and a Ph.D. degree in process control (chemical engineering) from the University of Alberta in 1976. During 1977 he worked as a computer applications engineer at Esso Chemicals in Sarnia, Ontario. Since 1978 he has been with the University of Alberta, where currently holds the NSERC-Matrikon-ASRA Senior Industrial Research Chair in Computer Process Control. In 1989, he was the recipient of the Albright & Wilson Americas Award of the Canadian Society for Chemical Engineering in recognition of distinguished contributions to chemical engineering. He has held visiting appointments at Oxford University and Balliol College as a SERC fellowin 1985-86 and at Kumamoto University, Japan as a senior research fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) in 1994. The main area of his current research is process and performance monitoring, system identification and design and implementation of softsensors. He has recently co-authored a book titled, Performance Assessment of Control Loops: Theory and Applications. He has held consulting appointments with a wide variety of process Industries and has also taught many industrial courses.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Diagnosis of Process Nonlinearities and Valve Stiction

  • Book Subtitle: Data Driven Approaches

  • Authors: Shoukat M. A. A. Choudhury, Sirish L. Shah, Nina F. Thornhill

  • Series Title: Advances in Industrial Control

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-79224-6

  • Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg

  • eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2008

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-540-79223-9Published: 11 September 2008

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-642-09810-9Published: 25 November 2010

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-540-79224-6Published: 20 August 2008

  • Series ISSN: 1430-9491

  • Series E-ISSN: 2193-1577

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 286

  • Number of Illustrations: 198 b/w illustrations, 115 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Control and Systems Theory, Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk

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