Associative data mining for alarm groupings in chemical processes
- DOI
- 10.2991/iske.2007.150How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- chemical plants, associative data mining, frequent episodes, alarm logs
- Abstract
Complex industrial processes such as nuclear power plants, chemical plants and petroleum refineries are usually equipped with alarm systems capable of monitoring thousands of process variables and generating tens of thousands of alarms which are used as mechanisms for alerting operators to take actions to alleviate or prevent an abnormal situation. Over-alarming and a lack of configuration management practices have often led to the degradation of these alarm systems, resulting in operational problems such as the Three-Mile Island accident. In order to aid alarm rationalization, this paper proposed an approach that incorporates a context-based segmentation approach with a data mining technique to find a set of correlated alarms from historical alarm event logs. Before the set of extracted results from this automated technique are used they can be evaluated by a process engineer with process understanding. The proposed approach is evaluated initially using simulation data from a Vinyl Acetate model. The approach is cost effective as any manual alarm analysis of the event logs for identifying primary and consequential alarms could be very time and labour intensive.
- Copyright
- © 2007, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Savo Kordic AU - Peng Lam AU - Jitian Xiao AU - Huaizhong Li PY - 2007/10 DA - 2007/10 TI - Associative data mining for alarm groupings in chemical processes BT - Proceedings of the 2007 International Conference on Intelligent Systems and Knowledge Engineering (ISKE 2007) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 878 EP - 885 SN - 1951-6851 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/iske.2007.150 DO - 10.2991/iske.2007.150 ID - Kordic2007/10 ER -