Isolating the root cause of propagated oscillations in process plants

International Journal of Adaptive Control and Signal Processing

Volumn 19, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 247-265

  Zang, Xiaoyun ^a   Howell, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Diagnosis; Nonlinearity; Oscillations

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CORRELATION METHODS; DIAGNOSIS; INDEPENDENT COMPONENT ANALYSIS; OSCILLATIONS; STABILITY; SWITCHING;

CONTROL LOOPS; LIMIT CYCLE; NONLINEARITY; PRODUCT QUALITY;

PROCESS CONTROL;

EID: 18844375870     PISSN: 08906327     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/acs.860     Document Type: Article

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