Diagnosis of Process Nonlinearities and Valve Stiction : Data Driven Approaches - Choudhury, Ali Ahammad Shoukat; Shah, Sirish L.; Thornhill, Nina F.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2008)
Higher-Order Statistics -- Higher-Order Statistics: Preliminaries -- Bispectrum and Bicoherence -- Data Quality - Compression and Quantization -- Impact of Data Compression and Quantization on Data-Driven Process Analyses -- Nonlinearity and Control Performance -- Measures of Nonlinearity - A Review -- Linear or Nonlinear? A Bicoherence-Based Measure of Nonlinearity -- A Nonlinearity Measure Based on Surrogate Data Analysis -- Nonlinearities in Control Loops -- Diagnosis of Poor Control Performance -- Control Valve Stiction~- Definition, Modelling, Detection and Quantification -- Different Types of Faults in Control Valves -- Stiction: Definition and Discussions -- Physics-Based Model of Control Valve Stiction -- Data-Driven Model of Valve Stiction -- Describing Function Analysis -- Automatic Detection and Quantification of Valve Stiction -- Industrial Applications of the Stiction Quantification Algorithm -- Confirming Valve Stiction -- Plant-wide Oscillations - Detection and Diagnosis -- Detection of Plantwide Oscillations -- Diagnosis of Plant-wide Oscillations.
Keywords: Control engineering; Quality control; Reliability; Industrial safety; Control and Systems Theory; Quality Control, Reliability, Safety and Risk