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12 - Aeronautical, Mechanical, Chemical and Manufacturing Engineering
Imperial College London
A practical method for identifying the propagation path of plant-wide disturbances
The algorithms developed in this paper and codes written by the authors are incorporated directly in Loop Performance Monitor (Plant Disturbance Analyser extension), a commercial product from ABB (a.horch@de.abb.com). An article in ABB Review gave an independent evaluation of the impact of this and other algorithms in a study with Eastman Chemical Company (Alexander Horch, John W. Cox, and Nunzio Bonavita, Peak Performance, ABB Review 2007(1), 24-29). Dr Jim Downs of Eastman Chemical Company (jjdowns@eastman.com) may be contacted for a statement of the impact of the method in solving several difficult industrial problems and its significance for the process industries.