Real Time Fault Monitoring of Industrial Processes (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, 12)

Pouliezos, A.D.

ISBN 10: 0792327373 / ISBN 13: 9780792327370

Published by Springer, 1994

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Real Time Fault Monitoring of Industrial Processes (Intelligent Systems, Control and Automation: Science and Engineering, 12)
• Publisher: Springer
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0792327373
• ISBN 13: 9780792327370
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Good

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Synopsis

Tbis book is basicaUy concemed with approaches for improving safety in man-made systems. We caU these approaches, coUectively, fault monitoring, since they are concemed primarily with detecting faults occurring in the components of such systems, being sensors, actuators, controUed plants or entire strucutures. The common feature of these approaches is the intention to detect an abrupt change in some characteristic property of the considered object, by monitoring the behavior of the system. This change may be a slow-evolving effect or a complete breakdoWD. In tbis sense, fault monitoring touches upon, and occasionaUy overIaps with, other areas of control engineering such as adaptive control, robust controller design, reIiabiIity and safety engineering, ergonomics and man-macbine interfacing, etc. In fact, a system safety problem, could be attacked from any of the above angles of view. In tbis book, we don't touch upon these areas, unless there is a strong relationship between the fauIt monitoring approaches discussed and the aforementioned fields. When we set out to write tbis book, our aim was to incIude as much material as possible in a most rigorous, unified and concise format. Tbis would incIude state-of-the-art method as weil as more cIassical techniques, stilI in use today. AB we proceeded in gathering material, however, it soon became apparent that these were contradicting design criteria and a trade-off had to be made. We believe that the completeness vs.

Synopsis

This text presents a detailed exposition of fault monitoring methods in industrial processes and structures. The following approaches are explained in considerable detail: Model-based methods (simple tests, analytical redundancy, parameter estimation); knowledge-based methods; artificial neural network methods; and nondestructive testing. Each approach is complemented by specific case studies from various industrial sectors (aerospace, chemical, nuclear, etc.), thus bridging theory and practice. This volume should be a useful tool in the hands of professional and academic engineers, and for scientists whose work involves automatic process control and supervision, statistical process control, applied statistics, quality control, computer-assisted predictive maintenance and plant monitoring, and structural reliability and safety. It can also be recommended as a supplementary postgraduate textbook.