King Fahd University of Petroleum and Minerals

Yokogawa Saudi Arabia Company

Mustafa Alnaser

Sami El Ferik

Sami El-Ferik

Muideen Adegoke

Ahmed A Adeniran

A method and system for compensating for stiction of a control valve in a pneumatically controlled valve system. A digital twin model of the pneumatically controlled valve system is generated. A current segment of data signals is received from a process measurement device connected to the pneumatically controlled valve system. Operation of the pneumatically controlled valve system is monitored by comparing the current segment to the digital twin model. Stiction is detected when the digital twin model directly detects stiction or when the nonlinearity and Gaussian index are above a certain threshold. A severity of the stiction is determined. Instructions for a stiction control device are used to generate control signals to be applied to the actuator to compensate for the severity of the stiction. Further, the digital twin model is displayed with a representation of the severity of the stiction.

Control loop performance advisory tool

In a method for failure, detection, operational data from a plurality of components in a system are received. A bank of submodels is created based on the operational data. The bank of submodels corresponds to a normal mode and one or more faulty modes of the system and is valid in different operating regimes of the system. Each of the banks of submodels has a respective weight (validity) and a respective suboutput. An output of the system is a weighted sum of the suboutputs of the submodels. The operational data is therefore processed to generate a validity profile through a constrained Kalman Filter (KCF) based multimodel fault detection and diagnosis (FDD). Subsequently, the validity profile is output. The validity profile is indicative of an operation state of the system at a given time, and the operation state includes a normal state and a fault state.

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Al-Khobar, Saudi Arabia

Mustafa Alnaser