Title
Active sensor configuration validation for refrigeration systems
Abstract
Major faults in the commissioning phase of refrigeration systems are caused by defects related to sensors. With a number of similar sensors available that do not differ by type but only by spatial location in the plant, interchange of sensors is a common defect. With sensors being used quite differently by the control system, fault-finding is difficult in practice and defects are regularly causing commissioning delays at considerable expense. Validation and handling of faults in the sensor configuration are therefore essential to cut costs during commissioning. With passive fault-diagnosis methods falling short on this problem, this paper suggests an active diagnosis procedure to isolate sensor faults at the commissioning stage, before normal operation has started. Using statistical methods, residuals are evaluated versus multiple hypothesis models in a minimization process to uniquely identify the sensor configuration. The method as such is generic and is shown in the paper to work convincingly on refrigeration systems with significant nonlinear behaviors.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.1109/ACC.2010.5530851
American Control Conference
Keywords
DocType
ISSN
delays,fault diagnosis,refrigeration,sensor placement,temperature sensors,active sensor configuration validation,fault handling,fault validation,minimization process,multiple hypothesis model,nonlinear behaviors,passive fault diagnosis method,refrigeration system,sensor fault finding,statistical method,normal operator,noise,uncertainty,noise measurement,detectors,control system,robustness
Conference
0743-1619
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4244-7426-4
0
0.34
References 
Authors
11
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Tobias Gybel Hovgaard140.96
Mogens Blanke200.68
Niemann, H.3679.24
Izadi-Zamanbadi, R.400.34