On-Line Hazard Aversion and Fault Diagnosis in Chemical Processes: The Digraph + Fault-Tree Method

IEEE Transactions on Reliability

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 1988, Pages 171-177

  Powers, Gary J ^a   Ulerich, Nancy H ^a  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Real time; Control; Diagnosis; Digraph; Fault diagnosis; Fault tree; Hazard aversion; Human operator; On line; Process

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OPERATIONS - PROCESSING; CONTROL SYSTEMS - IDENTIFICATION; MATHEMATICAL TECHNIQUES - GRAPH THEORY;

DIRECTED GRAPHS (DI-GRAPH); EQUIPMENT MALFUNCTIONS; ON-LINE HAZARD AVERSION AND FAULT DIAGNOSIS; PROCESS DISTURBANCES;

FAILURE ANALYSIS;

EID: 0024035093     PISSN: 00189529     EISSN: 15581721     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/24.3738     Document Type: Article

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