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Online Detection of Shutdown Periods in Chemical Plants: A Case Study.

Salvador, M. M., Gabrys, B. and Zliobaite, I., 2014. Online Detection of Shutdown Periods in Chemical Plants: A Case Study. In: Knowledge-Based and Intelligent Information & Engineering Systems 18th Annual Conference (KES-2014), 15, 16 & 17 September 2014, Gdynia, Poland, 580 - 588.

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DOI: 10.1016/j.procs.2014.08.139

Abstract

In process industry, chemical processes are controlled and monitored by using readings from multiple physical sensors across the plants. Such physical sensors are also supplemented by soft sensors, i.e. adaptive predictive models, which are often used for computing hard-to-measure variables of the process. For soft sensors to work well and adapt to changing operating conditions they need to be provided with relevant data. As production plants are regularly stopped, data instances generated during shutdown periods have to be identified to avoid updating these predictive models with wrong data. We present a case study concerned with a large chemical plant operation over a 2 years period. The task is to robustly and accurately identify the shutdown periods even in case of multiple sensor failures. State-of-the-art methods were evaluated using the first half of the dataset for calibration purposes and the other half for measuring the performance. Results show that shutdowns (i.e. sudden changes) can be quickly detected in any case but the detection delay of startups (i.e. gradual changes) is directly related with the choice of a window size.

Item Type:Conference or Workshop Item (Paper)
ISSN:1877-0509
Uncontrolled Keywords:change-point detection; online detection; shutdown periods; data streams; case study
Group:Faculty of Science & Technology
ID Code:23389
Deposited By: Symplectic RT2
Deposited On:12 Apr 2016 14:25
Last Modified:14 Mar 2022 13:55

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