A review of alarm root cause analysis in process industries: Common methods, recent research status and challenges

HS Alinezhad, MH Roohi, T Chen - Chemical Engineering Research and …, 2022 - Elsevier
In modern industrial plants with a variety of interconnected devices and control loops, a fault
may propagate through the information and material flow pathways. Alarms are indicators of …

A data-driven Bayesian network learning method for process fault diagnosis

MT Amin, F Khan, S Ahmed, S Imtiaz - Process Safety and Environmental …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a data-driven methodology for fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) by
integrating the principal component analysis (PCA) with the Bayesian network (BN). Though …

工业过程故障根源诊断与传播路径识别技术综述

马亮, 彭开香, 董洁 - 自动化学报, 2022 - aas.net.cn
故障根源诊断与传播路径识别是故障诊断框架下的关键核心问题, 是保障工业过程安全生产及
获得可靠产品质量的有效手段, 是当前过程控制领域的研究热点. 该技术的研究不仅丰富了故障 …

High-speed train fault detection with unsupervised causality-based feature extraction methods

Y Xu, J Liu - Advanced Engineering Informatics, 2021 - Elsevier
With the development of smart sensors, large amount of operating data collected from a
complex system as a high-speed train providing opportunities in efficient and effective fault …

A direct transfer entropy-based multiblock Bayesian network for root cause diagnosis of process faults

P Kumari, Q Wang, F Khan… - Industrial & Engineering …, 2022 - ACS Publications
In chemical processes, Bayesian network (BN)-based approaches have been extensively
applied for process fault diagnosis. Generally, BN is learned using score and search …

Adaptive online optimization of alarm thresholds using multilayer Bayesian networks and active transfer entropy

Y Luo, B Gopaluni, L Cao, Y Wang, J Cheng - Control Engineering Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
Poorly designed alarm thresholds usually lead to significant safety hazards and highly
connected industrial processes. Due to the process condition changes, the traditional alarm …

A method for detecting causal relationships between industrial alarm variables using Transfer Entropy and K2 algorithm

RS de Abreu, YT Nunes, LA Guedes, I Silva - Journal of Process Control, 2021 - Elsevier
Advances in technology allowed the fast and easy creation and configuration of industrial
alarms. The growth in the number of alarms, however, brought some problems to the alarm …

A new transfer entropy approach based on information granulation and clustering for root cause analysis

X Zhang, W Hu, F Yang, W Cao, M Wu - Control Engineering Practice, 2023 - Elsevier
In complex industrial facilities, a fault may generate in a unit and easily propagate to other
units, resulting in degraded performance of process operations and deteriorating the …

A multi‐fault diagnosis method based on improved SMOTE for class‐imbalanced data

Y Xu, Y Zhao, W Ke, YL He, QX Zhu… - … Canadian Journal of …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
With the development of industrial processes, how to effectively diagnose the faults in an
increasingly complex production process has attracted widespread attention. It is worth …

Stable soft sensor modeling based on causality analysis

F Yu, Q Xiong, L Cao, F Yang - Control Engineering Practice, 2022 - Elsevier
Data-driven soft sensors, aiming to estimate and predict hard-to-measure quality variables
using easy-to-measure process variables, have now become the key foundation for …