Root Cause Diagnosis of Oscillation-Type Plant Faults Using Nonlinear Causality Analysis

Detection of power oscillation and simultaneous faults using Clark transform

Distance relays are widely used to protect transmission lines. Sometimes, in these lines due to the occurrence of the oscillation of the power, the impedance calculated in the distance relay enters into its functional zones and leads to the cutting off of the lines. This issue can cause global power outages. Accordingly, in this paper, a Clark-based method for detecting the oscillation of power...

Root cause analysis of plant-wide disturbances

Root Cause Diagnosis of Plantwide Disturbance Using Harmonic Analysis

Disturbances in the form of oscillations are usually originated in process plants due to various faults such as sensor faults, valve faults, process faults and controller tuning faults. Many of these faults can be represented as nonlinearities. Faults in the form of nonlinearities may produce oscillations with a fundamental frequency and its harmonics. This study presents a novel method based o...

Root Cause and Error Analysis

Error is an inevitable part of life and cannot be completely eliminated, but it can be minimized. A root cause analysis is a technique for understanding the systematic error causes that is involved beyond a person or people to implement an errors and including field and environmental causes of errors when occur in this situation too. An important factor of an error occurrence is a root cause (c...

Root Cause Diagnosis of Plant-wide Oscillations using the Adjacency Matrix

Oscillations are a common type of plant-wide disturbances whose effects propagate to many units and thus may impact overall process performance. It is important to detect and diagnose such oscillations early in order to rectify the situation. Many frequency domain tools such as the power spectrum and spectrum envelope methods are capable of detecting the oscillation frequency. However, few meth...