• DocumentCode
    697227
  • Title

    Detection of valve stiction in integrating processes

  • Author

    Horch, Alexander ; Isaksson, Alf J.

  • Author_Institution
    ABB Corp. Res., Ladenburg, Germany
  • fYear
    2001
  • fDate
    4-7 Sept. 2001
  • Firstpage
    1327
  • Lastpage
    1332
  • Abstract
    A simple method for detection of static friction (stiction) in control valves was presented in [6]. However, that method cannot be used for control loops with integrating processes. This paper presents a new method to handle these cases. The main idea is to detect abrupt changes (which are typical in the case of stiction) in the loop output. This is done by considering the probability distribution of the second derivative. In the stiction case the distribution is close to Gaussian, otherwise it will have two peaks.
  • Keywords
    signal detection; statistical distributions; stiction; valves; control loops; control valves; probability distribution; static friction detection; valve stiction detection; Correlation; Gaussian distribution; Histograms; Level control; Oscillators; Process control; White noise; Process supervision; process control; signal processing; statistical fault diagnosis;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • Conference_Titel
    Control Conference (ECC), 2001 European
  • Conference_Location
    Porto
  • Print_ISBN
    978-3-9524173-6-2
  • Type

    conf

  • Filename
    7076101