An Approach to Fault Diagnosis of Chemical Processes via Neural Networks

Document Type

Article

Abstract

This article presents an approach to fault diagnosis of chemical processes at steadystate operation by using artificial neural networks. The conventional back-propagation network is enhanced by adding a number of functional units to the input layer. This technique considerably extends a network's capability for representing complex nonlinear relations and makes it possible to simultaneously diagnose multiple faults and their corresponding levels in a chemical process. A simulation study of a heptane-to-toluene process at steady-state operation shows successful results for the proposed approach.

Rights

Copyright 1993 John Wiley & Sons.

Fan, J. Y., Nikolaou, M., & White, R. E. (January 1992). An Approach to Fault Diagnosis of Chemical Processes Via Neural Networks. AIChE Journal, 39 (10, 82 – 88. http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/aic.690390109

This document is currently not available here.

Share

COinS