An object-oriented expert system for coal-fired MHD power plant fault monitoring and diagnosis

  • Authors:
  • Eddie S. Washington;Moonis Ali

  • Affiliations:
  • The Univ. of Tennessee Space Intitute, Tullahoma;The Univ. of Tennessee Space Institute, Tullahoma

  • Venue:
  • IEA/AIE '89 Proceedings of the 2nd international conference on Industrial and engineering applications of artificial intelligence and expert systems - Volume 1
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

Abnormal process behaviors observed through sensor data values are symptomatic of process faults. It has been demonstrated that pattern recognition techniques that associate faults with the symptoms they produce can be successfully applied in performing on-line automated fault detection and diagnosis [1-3]. This paper describes an object-oriented implementation of a knowledge-based expert system designed to aid power plant operators by performing automated sensor based fault detection and diagnosis. This object-oriented implementation replaces a rule-based backward chaining implementation of a Plant Intelligent Supervisory Control Expert System (PISCES) developed earlier at the University of Tennessee Space Institute [4-9]. All references to PISCES in this paper refer to the new object-oriented implementation. The earlier version will be referred to as a rule-based system.