Detection of events causing pluggage of a coal-fired boller: A data mining approach

Combustion Science and Technology

Volumn 177, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 2327-2348

  Kusiak, Andrew ^a   Burns, Alex ^a   Shah, Shital ^a   Novotny, Nick ^a  

^a IA United States   (United States)

Author keywords

Boiler pluggage; Combustion process; Data mining; Fault detection; Process control; Temporal data mining

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMBUSTION; DATA MINING; DATA REDUCTION; PROCESS CONTROL;

BOILER PLUGGAGE; COMBUSTION PROCESS; FAULT DETECTION; TEMPORAL DATA MINING;

COAL FIRED BOILERS;

EID: 29244437206     PISSN: 00102202     EISSN: 1563521X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00102200500241115     Document Type: Article

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