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  • Open Access
7 Citations
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A Fault Handling Process for Faults in District Heating Customer Installations

  • Sara Månsson,
  • Marcus Thern,
  • Per-Olof Johansson Kallioniemi and
  • Kerstin Sernhed

28 May 2021

Faults in district heating (DH) customer installations cause high return temperatures, which have a negative impact on both current and future district heating systems. Thus, there is a need to detect and correct these faults soon after they occur to...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,298 Views
23 Pages

17 February 2022

This paper presents a fault-tolerant control scheme for the sensor fault in the acceleration process of the variable cycle engine. Firstly, an adaptive equilibrium manifold model with multiple inputs and multiple outputs is established. Combined with...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
217 Citations
29,228 Views
26 Pages

9 September 2020

The main roles of fault detection and diagnosis (FDD) for industrial processes are to make an effective indicator which can identify faulty status of a process and then to take a proper action against a future failure or unfavorable accidents. In ord...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
21 Citations
4,418 Views
20 Pages

Hierarchical Deep LSTM for Fault Detection and Diagnosis for a Chemical Process

  • Piyush Agarwal,
  • Jorge Ivan Mireles Gonzalez,
  • Ali Elkamel and
  • Hector Budman

1 December 2022

A hierarchical structure based on a Deep LSTM Supervised Autoencoder Neural Network (Deep LSTM-SAE NN) is presented for the detection and classification of faults in industrial plants. The proposed methodology has the ability to classify incipient fa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,965 Views
26 Pages

Fault Isolation and Estimation in Networks of Linear Process Systems

  • Wijaya Kurniawan,
  • Katalin M. Hangos and
  • Lőrinc Márton

28 May 2023

Fault detection and isolation is a ubiquitous task in current complex systems even in the linear networked case when the complexity is mainly caused by the complex network structure. A simple yet practically important special case of networked linear...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,237 Views
20 Pages

Accurate monitoring of complex industrial plants is crucial for ensuring safe operations and reliable management of desired quality. Early detection of abnormal events is essential to preempt serious consequences, enhance system performance, and redu...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,305 Views
25 Pages

9 March 2023

This study introduces particle filtering (PF) for the tracking and fault diagnostics of complex process systems. In process systems, model equations are often nonlinear and environmental noise is non-Gaussian. We propose a method for state estimation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,706 Views
18 Pages

24 April 2022

Because an electromagnet has a complex structure and manufacturing process, it is difficult to analyze the overall failure of the electromagnet. In order to solve this problem, a fault intelligent analysis and diagnosis system based on fuzzy fault tr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
22 Citations
4,681 Views
25 Pages

27 April 2022

In fault detection and the diagnosis of large industrial systems, whose chemical processes usually exhibit complex, high-dimensional, time-varying and non-Gaussian characteristics, the classification accuracy of traditional methods is low. In this pa...

  • Article
  • Open Access
462 Views
21 Pages

16 November 2025

Deep neural networks (DNNs) have achieved superior performance in diagnosing process faults, but they lack robustness when encountering novel fault types absent from training sets. Such unknown faults commonly appear in industrial settings, and conve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,061 Views
26 Pages

22 July 2025

With the rising automation and complexity level of industrial systems, the efficiency and accuracy of fault diagnosis have become a critical challenge. The convolutional neural network (CNN) has shown some success in the fault diagnosis field. Howeve...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,059 Views
22 Pages

26 March 2022

Chemical processes usually exhibit complex, high-dimensional and non-Gaussian characteristics, and the diagnosis of faults in chemical processes is particularly important. To address this problem, this paper proposes a novel fault diagnosis method ba...

  • Article
  • Open Access
33 Citations
5,479 Views
14 Pages

If an accident occurs during charging of an electric vehicle (EV), it will cause serious damage to the car, the person and the charging facility. Therefore, this paper proposes a fault warning method for an EV charging process based on an adaptive de...

  • Article
  • Open Access
301 Views
19 Pages

Fault Process Modeling and Transient Stability Analysis of Grid-Following Photovoltaic Converter Grid-Connected System

  • Ze Wei,
  • Tao Xu,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Jianan Mu,
  • Lin Cheng,
  • Ning Chen,
  • Luming Ge and
  • Xiong Du

8 December 2025

With the growing integration of renewable energy into power systems, transient stability throughout the whole fault process has become a critical issue. This process comprises three distinct stages: pre-fault, fault-on, and post-fault recovery. Howev...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,547 Views
13 Pages

5 November 2021

Fault detection in the waste incineration process depends on high-temperature image observation and the experience of field maintenance personnel, which is inefficient and can easily cause misjudgment of the fault. In this paper, a fault detection me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,650 Views
20 Pages

24 November 2023

Process safety plays a vital role in the modern process industry. To prevent undesired accidents caused by malfunctions or other disturbances in complex industrial processes, considerable attention has been paid to data-driven fault detection techniq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,844 Views
14 Pages

2 December 2021

The products of a batch process have high economic value. Meanwhile, a batch process involves complex chemicals and equipment. The variability of its operation leads to a high failure rate. Therefore, early fault diagnosis of batch processes is of gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,995 Views
20 Pages

9 May 2022

Product fault diagnosis has always been the focus of quality and reliability research. However, a failure–rate curve of some products is a symmetrical function, the fault analysis result is not true because the failure period of the products ca...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,806 Views
20 Pages

30 September 2024

Modern power systems are high-dimensional, strongly coupled nonlinear systems with complex and diverse dynamic characteristics. The polynomial model of the power system is a key focus in stability research. Therefore, this paper presents a study on t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,465 Views
17 Pages

A Fault Identification Method in Distillation Process Based on Dynamic Mechanism Analysis and Signed Directed Graph

  • Wende Tian,
  • Shifa Zhang,
  • Zhe Cui,
  • Zijian Liu,
  • Shaochen Wang,
  • Ya Zhao and
  • Hao Zou

26 January 2021

Due to the complexity of materials and energy cycles, the distillation system has numerous working conditions difficult to troubleshoot in time. To address the problem, a novel DMA-SDG fault identification method that combines dynamic mechanism analy...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
7,634 Views
11 Pages

6 September 2017

The essence of the machining process is the interaction that occurs between machine tools and a workpiece under certain conditions of cutting parameters. Root cause identification (RCI) is critical to the quality control and productivity improvement...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,532 Views
17 Pages

27 April 2024

This study introduces a fault diagnosis algorithm based on particle filtering for open-cycle liquid-propellant rocket engines (LPREs). The algorithm serves as a model-based method for the startup process, accounting for more than 30% of engine failur...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,175 Views
16 Pages

3 August 2023

The paper focuses on the importance of prompt and efficient process fault detection in contemporary manufacturing industries, where product quality and safety protocols are critical. The study compares the efficiencies of two techniques for process f...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,042 Views
23 Pages

24 June 2025

Roll-to-roll (R2R) manufacturing processes demand precise control of web or yarn velocity and tension, alongside robust mechanisms for handling system failures. This paper presents an integrated approach combining high-performance control with reliab...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,255 Views
24 Pages

12 August 2021

Aiming at the lack of reliable gradual fault detection and abnormal condition alarm and evaluation ability in the plasticizing process of single-base gun propellant, a fault detection and diagnosis method based on normalized mutual information weight...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
4,125 Views
22 Pages

24 December 2021

This paper presents a general testing coverage software reliability modeling framework that covers imperfect debugging and considers not only fault detection processes (FDP) but also fault correction processes (FCP). Numerous software reliability gro...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
6,061 Views
11 Pages

This paper focuses on the fire risk assessment for commercial complex, as the variety of fire accidental triggers inside could be a big threat to the public fire safety, leading to catastrophic loss in human lives and properties. Both the qualitative...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
2,769 Views
16 Pages

29 July 2021

Many NHPP software reliability growth models (SRGMs) have been proposed to assess software reliability during the past 40 years, but most of them have focused on modeling the fault detection process (FDP) in two ways: one is to ignore the fault corre...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,407 Views
20 Pages

28 February 2024

Batch processing is a widely utilized technique in the manufacturing of high-value products. Traditional methods for quality assessment in batch processes often lead to productivity and yield losses because of offline measurement of quality variables...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
9,460 Views
18 Pages

6 July 2011

Plasma process tools, which usually cost several millions of US dollars, are often used in the semiconductor fabrication etching process. If the plasma process is halted due to some process fault, the productivity will be reduced and the cost will in...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,852 Views
21 Pages

7 October 2023

Incipient fault diagnosis is particularly important in process industrial systems, as its early detection helps to prevent major accidents. Against this background, this study proposes a combined method of mixed kernel principal components analysis a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,512 Views
22 Pages

26 January 2021

This study considers the problem of distinguishing between process and sensor faults in nonlinear chemical processes. An integrated fault diagnosis framework is proposed to distinguish chemical process sensor faults from process faults. The key idea...

  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
14,558 Views
75 Pages

Data-Driven Process Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis: A Comprehensive Survey

  • Afrânio Melo,
  • Maurício Melo Câmara and
  • José Carlos Pinto

24 January 2024

This paper presents a comprehensive review of the historical development, the current state of the art, and prospects of data-driven approaches for industrial process monitoring. The subject covers a vast and diverse range of works, which are compile...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,756 Views
20 Pages

22 July 2021

Process fault is one of the main reasons that a system may appear unreliable, and it affects the safety of a system. The existence of different degrees of noise in the industry also makes it difficult to extract the effective features of the data for...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,575 Views
20 Pages

19 June 2018

This paper addresses the problem of fault-tolerant stabilization of nonlinear processes subject to input constraints, control actuator faults and limited sensor–controller communication. A fault-tolerant Lyapunov-based model predictive control (MPC)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,549 Views
16 Pages

A Sequential Inspection Procedure for Fault Detection in Multistage Manufacturing Processes

  • Rubén Moliner-Heredia,
  • Gracia M. Bruscas-Bellido,
  • José V. Abellán-Nebot and
  • Ignacio Peñarrocha-Alós

12 November 2021

Fault diagnosis in multistage manufacturing processes (MMPs) is a challenging task where most of the research presented in the literature considers a predefined inspection scheme to identify the sources of variation and make the process diagnosable....

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,391 Views
28 Pages

Improved Fault Detection in Chemical Engineering Processes via Non-Parametric Kolmogorov–Smirnov-Based Monitoring Strategy

  • K. Ramakrishna Kini,
  • Muddu Madakyaru,
  • Fouzi Harrou,
  • Mukund Kumar Menon and
  • Ying Sun

Fault detection is crucial in maintaining reliability, safety, and consistent product quality in chemical engineering processes. Accurate fault detection allows for identifying anomalies, signaling deviations from the system’s nominal behavior,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,192 Views
15 Pages

A Dynamic GLR-Based Fault Detection Method for Non-Gaussain Dynamic Processes

  • Xiaogang Pan,
  • Long Gao,
  • Yuanyuan Jiao and
  • Zhiwen Chen

28 June 2022

Non-Gaussian dynamic processes are ubiquitous due to the presence of non-Gaussian distributed variables. Therefore, fault detection of non-Gaussian dynamic processes plays a vital role to maintain the safe operation of systems and symmetry of data di...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,169 Views
8 Pages

The paper proposes a fault processing strategy based on classification principle. Detail the realization of the strategy for a fuel cell vehicle which is developed by Tongji University and shanghai fuel cell vehicle powertrain Co., Ltd. Emphasis on t...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
2,421 Views
24 Pages

14 June 2024

This paper introduces a new adaptive framework for fault detection and diagnosis using neural-based PCA. This framework addresses the limitations of traditional PCA in handling time-varying processes. The adaptive framework updates the correlation ma...

  • Communication
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,485 Views
20 Pages

23 September 2020

It is proposed, developed, investigated, and validated by experiments and modelling for the first time in worldwide terms new data processing technologies, higher order spectral multiple correlation technologies for fault identification for electrome...

  • Article
  • Open Access
480 Views
20 Pages

4 November 2025

System security is a very important organizational task for the system to maintain proper functioning and to prevent modifications or hijacking of the system. Indeed, it is necessary to address any detected problem or defect to protect human beings,...

  • Review
  • Open Access
21 Citations
6,609 Views
32 Pages

28 December 2024

This paper provides a comprehensive and systematic review of fault diagnosis methods based on artificial intelligence (AI) in smart distribution networks described in the literature. For the first time, it systematically combs through the main fault...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,473 Views
17 Pages

21 July 2021

Models trained with one system fail to identify other systems accurately because of domain shifts. To perform domain adaptation, numerous studies have been conducted in many fields and have successfully aligned different domains into one domain. The...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,282 Views
15 Pages

1 July 2022

A permanent magnet actuator (PMA) is a critical device for transforming, transmitting, and protecting electrical energy in renewable energy systems. The reliability of a PMA exerts a direct effect on the operational safety, stability, and reliability...

  • Article
  • Open Access
792 Views
22 Pages

11 September 2025

Monitoring multimode industrial processes presents significant challenges due to varying operating conditions, nonlinear dynamics, and mode-dependent feature distributions. This paper proposes a novel process monitoring framework that integrates an e...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,917 Views
32 Pages

19 September 2025

Driven by the high penetration of renewable energy sources and power electronic devices, modern power systems have become increasingly complex, intensifying the demand for accurate and intelligent fault detection. This paper analyzes a total of 81 re...

  • Article
  • Open Access
39 Citations
4,258 Views
18 Pages

3 November 2021

Photovoltaic power plants nowadays play an important role in the context of energy generation based on renewable sources. With the purpose of obtaining maximum efficiency, the PV modules of these power plants are installed in trackers. However, the m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,821 Views
25 Pages

23 May 2024

This study introduces the Adversarial Task Augmented Sequential Meta-Learning (ATASML) framework, designed to enhance fault diagnosis in industrial processes. ATASML integrates adversarial learning with sequential task learning to improve the model&r...

  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,675 Views
37 Pages

12 June 2025

This paper presents a comprehensive review of High-Voltage Direct-Current (HVDC) systems, focusing on their technological evolution, fault characteristics, and advanced signal processing techniques for fault detection. The paper traces the developmen...

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