Monitoring transitions in chemical plants using enhanced trend analysis

Computers and Chemical Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1455-1472

  Sundarraman, Anandakrishnan ^a   Srinivasan, Rajagopalan ^a  

^a NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Dynamic feature synchronization; Fault detection; FCCU; Grafcets; Process tracking; Startup

Indexed keywords

CATALYSIS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EXPERT SYSTEMS; MONITORING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

REAL-TIME TRENDS;

CHEMICAL PLANTS;

FAULT DETECTION;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CHEMICAL INDUSTRY; CHEMICAL PLANT; DISTILLATION; DYNAMICS; MONITORING; PROCESS MONITORING; QUANTITATIVE GENETICS; TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0038046670     PISSN: 00981354     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0098-1354(03)00075-9     Document Type: Article

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