A practical approach to improve alarm system performance: Application to power plant

doi:10.1016/j.cjche.2018.09.020

中国化学工程学报 ›› 2019, Vol. 27 ›› Issue (5): 1094-1102.DOI: 10.1016/j.cjche.2018.09.020

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A practical approach to improve alarm system performance: Application to power plant

Jay Sompura¹, Amit Joshi¹, Babji Srinivasan², Rajagopalan Srinivasan³

1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India;
2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India;
3 Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

收稿日期:2018-07-02 修回日期:2018-09-12 出版日期:2019-05-28 发布日期:2019-06-27
通讯作者: Babji Srinivasan, Rajagopalan Srinivasan

A practical approach to improve alarm system performance: Application to power plant

Jay Sompura¹, Amit Joshi¹, Babji Srinivasan², Rajagopalan Srinivasan³

1 Department of Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India;
2 Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Gandhinagar, India;
3 Department of Chemical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras, India

Received:2018-07-02 Revised:2018-09-12 Online:2019-05-28 Published:2019-06-27
Contact: Babji Srinivasan, Rajagopalan Srinivasan

摘要/Abstract

摘要： Process safety in chemical industries is considered to be one of the important goals towards sustainable development. This is due to the fact that, major accidents still occur and continue to exert significant reputational and financial impacts on process industries. Alarm systems constitute an indispensable component of automation as they draw the attention of process operators to any abnormal condition in the plant. Therefore, if deployed properly, alarm systems can play a critical role in helping plant operators ensure process safety and profitability. However, in practice, many process plants suffer from poor alarm system configuration which leads to nuisance alarms and alarm floods that compromise safety. A vast amount of research has primarily focused on developing sophisticated alarm management algorithms to address specific issues. In this article, we provide a simple, practical, systematic approach that can be applied by plant engineers (i.e., non-experts) to improve industrial alarm system performance. The proposed approach is demonstrated using an industrial power plant case study.

关键词: Chattering alarm, Correspondence analysis, Density based clustering, Duplicate alarms, Combined-cycle power plant, Association rule mining

Abstract: Process safety in chemical industries is considered to be one of the important goals towards sustainable development. This is due to the fact that, major accidents still occur and continue to exert significant reputational and financial impacts on process industries. Alarm systems constitute an indispensable component of automation as they draw the attention of process operators to any abnormal condition in the plant. Therefore, if deployed properly, alarm systems can play a critical role in helping plant operators ensure process safety and profitability. However, in practice, many process plants suffer from poor alarm system configuration which leads to nuisance alarms and alarm floods that compromise safety. A vast amount of research has primarily focused on developing sophisticated alarm management algorithms to address specific issues. In this article, we provide a simple, practical, systematic approach that can be applied by plant engineers (i.e., non-experts) to improve industrial alarm system performance. The proposed approach is demonstrated using an industrial power plant case study.

Key words: Chattering alarm, Correspondence analysis, Density based clustering, Duplicate alarms, Combined-cycle power plant, Association rule mining

Jay Sompura, Amit Joshi, Babji Srinivasan, Rajagopalan Srinivasan. A practical approach to improve alarm system performance: Application to power plant[J]. 中国化学工程学报, 2019, 27(5): 1094-1102.

Jay Sompura, Amit Joshi, Babji Srinivasan, Rajagopalan Srinivasan. A practical approach to improve alarm system performance: Application to power plant[J]. Chinese Journal of Chemical Engineering, 2019, 27(5): 1094-1102.

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