Automatic qualitative trend simulation method for diagnosing faults in industrial processes

This work proposes an automatic method of qualitative simulation for industrial processes to predict the steady-state measurement patterns arising from different faults. Due to their characteristics, qualitative simulations tend to generate multiple spurious solutions. The proposed method limits the...

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Autores principales: Maestri, Mauricio Leonardo, Cassanello Fernández, Miryam Celeste, Horowitz, Gabriel I.
Publicado: 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://bibliotecadigital.exactas.uba.ar/collection/paper/document/paper_00981354_v64_n_p55_Maestri
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_00981354_v64_n_p55_Maestri
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Sumario:This work proposes an automatic method of qualitative simulation for industrial processes to predict the steady-state measurement patterns arising from different faults. Due to their characteristics, qualitative simulations tend to generate multiple spurious solutions. The proposed method limits the number of such spurious solutions by automatically generating new qualitative equations from the generic quantitative model (i.e. without the need of knowing the value of its parameters) and using simple qualitative known relations or other readily available information. An algorithm to obtain such solutions from the set of qualitative equations is also presented. © 2014 Elsevier Ltd.