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Nina Thornhill's Degrees
- Bachelors Chemical Engineering University of Manchester
- Masters Chemical Engineering Imperial College London
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Nina Frances Thornhill is a British chemical engineer specialising in process automation. She is a professor emerita in the Imperial College London Department of Chemical Engineering, where she formerly held the ABB/Royal Academy of Engineering Chair of Process Automation.
Nina Thornhill's Published Works
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Published Works
- Modelling valve stiction (2005) (281)
- Diagnosis of poor control-loop performance using higher-order statistics (2004) (245)
- Finding the Direction of Disturbance Propagation in a Chemical Process Using Transfer Entropy (2007) (228)
- Detection of multiple oscillations in control loops (2003) (223)
- A continuous stirred tank heater simulation model with applications (2008) (187)
- Detection and Diagnosis of Oscillation in Control Loops (1997) (185)
- Advances and new directions in plant-wide disturbance detection and diagnosis (2007) (183)
- Coherency identification in power systems through principal component analysis (2005) (180)
- Automatic detection and quantification of stiction in control valves (2006) (151)
- Refinery-wide control loop performance assessment (1999) (150)
- A practical method for identifying the propagation path of plant-wide disturbances (2008) (138)
- A Dynamic Mode Decomposition Framework for Global Power System Oscillation Analysis (2015) (130)
- Detection and Diagnosis of Stiction in Control Loops State of the Art and Advanced Methods (2010) (126)
- Diagnosis of plant-wide oscillation through data-driven analysis and process understanding (2003) (120)
- The current state of control loop performance monitoring – A survey of application in industry (2016) (112)
- Estimation of dissolved carbon dioxide concentrations in aerobic fermentations (1991) (96)
- Comparison of Three Electromechanical Oscillation Damping Estimation Methods (2011) (94)
- A Multivariate Approach Towards Interarea Oscillation Damping Estimation Under Ambient Conditions Via Independent Component Analysis and Random Decrement (2011) (92)
- Cause-and-effect analysis in chemical processes utilizing XML, plant connectivity and quantitative process history (2009) (88)
- Diagnosis of Process Nonlinearities and Valve Stiction: Data Driven Approaches (2008) (86)
- Finding the source of nonlinearity in a process with plant-wide oscillation (2005) (83)
- Practical solutions to multivariate feedback control performance assessment problem: reduced a priori knowledge of interactor matrices (2005) (73)
- A combined analysis of plant connectivity and alarm logs to reduce the number of alerts in an automation system (2013) (72)
- Using process topology in plant-wide control loop performance assessment (2006) (65)
- The impact of compression on data-driven process analyses (2004) (65)
- DETECTION OF DISTRIBUTED OSCILLATIONS AND ROOT-CAUSE DIAGNOSIS (2001) (61)
- Near-infrared spectroscopy for bioprocess monitoring and control. (1999) (55)
- Detecting and isolating multiple plant-wide oscillations via spectral independent component analysis (2005) (53)
- Adaptive Multi-Channel Transmission Power Control for Industrial Wireless Instrumentation (2014) (51)
- PSCMAP: A new tool for plant-wide oscillation detection (2005) (49)
- Closed‐loop control of fed‐batch cultures of recombinant Escherichia coli using on‐line HPLC (1994) (48)
- Comparative review of methods for stability monitoring in electrical power systems and vibrating structures (2010) (48)
- Alternative solutions to multi-variate control performance assessment problems q (2006) (47)
- Demand-side management and optimal operation of industrial electricity consumers: An example of an energy-intensive chemical plant (2016) (46)
- Detection and visualization of power system disturbances using principal component analysis (2013) (43)
- Inferential measurement of SAG mill parameters (2001) (41)
- Model predictive load–frequency control taking into account imbalance uncertainty (2016) (40)
- Optimization of a network of compressors in parallel: Real Time Optimization (RTO) of compressors in chemical plants – An industrial case study (2015) (40)
- Optimal selection of control structure using a steady-state inversely controlled process model (2012) (39)
- Nearest neighbors methods for root cause analysis of plantwide disturbances (2007) (39)
- Computer Applications in Fermentation Technology: Modelling and Control of Biotechnological Processes (1989) (38)
- Wide-Area Monitoring of Power Systems Using Principal Component Analysis and $k$-Nearest Neighbor Analysis (2018) (37)
- Optimization of a network of compressors in parallel: Operational and maintenance planning – The air separation plant case (2015) (36)
- Wireless communication in process automation: A survey of opportunities, requirements, concerns and challenges (2010) (35)
- Real-Time Detection of Power System Disturbances Based on $k$ -Nearest Neighbor Analysis (2017) (34)
- Integrated design and control using a dynamic inversely controlled process model (2013) (33)
- Advances in alarm data analysis with a practical application to online alarm flood classification (2019) (32)
- DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS OF SYSTEM NONLINEARITIES USING HIGHER ORDER STATISTICS (2002) (32)
- Nearest neighbors method for detecting transient disturbances in process and electromechanical systems (2014) (30)
- A simple test to confirm control valve stiction (2005) (28)
- Specifying the directionality of fault propagation paths using transfer entropy (2004) (28)
- ADVANCES AND NEW DIRECTIONS IN PLANT-WIDE CONTROLLER PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT (2006) (27)
- Data-Driven Model of Valve Stiction (2003) (27)
- Detection and Quantification of Control Valve Stiction (2004) (25)
- Frequency restoration reserve control scheme with participation of industrial loads (2013) (25)
- Inferential measurement of SAG mill parameters II: state estimation (2002) (25)
- Model Predictive Control for Power System Frequency Control Taking into Account Imbalance Uncertainty (2014) (24)
- Fault detection and identification combining process measurements and statistical alarms (2020) (22)
- Multi‐criteria manufacturability indices for ranking high‐concentration monoclonal antibody formulations (2017) (22)
- Multidimensional Visualization and Clustering of Historical Process Data (2006) (21)
- A visual programming environment for bioprocess control. (1994) (21)
- A heterogeneous benchmark dataset for data analytics: Multiphase flow facility case study (2019) (21)
- Merging process models and plant topology (2011) (21)
- Principal Component Analysis of Nonlinear Chromatography (2008) (21)
- ANALYSIS OF PLANT-WIDE DISTURBANCES THROUGH DATA-DRIVEN TECHNIQUES AND PROCESS UNDERSTANDING (2002) (21)
- Plant-wide root cause identification using plant key performance indicators (KPIs) with application to a paper machine (2016) (19)
- Detection and Diagnosis of Plant‐Wide Oscillations (2008) (19)
- Model Predictive Control of Post-Combustion CO2 Capture Process integrated with a power plant (2015) (18)
- Quantification of valve leakage rates (2012) (18)
- Improving Root Cause Analysis by Detecting and Removing Transient Changes in Oscillatory Time Series with Application to a 1,3-Butadiene Process (2019) (18)
- A Data-Driven Model for Valve Stiction (2004) (18)
- An exploratory study to identify rogue seasonality in a steel company's supply network using spectral principal component analysis (2006) (18)
- Applying model predictive control to power system frequency control (2013) (18)
- Fitting Spline Functions to Noisy Data Using a Genetic Algorithm (1993) (18)
- Effect of wind penetration on power system stability (2013) (17)
- Practical experiences in refinery control loop performance assessment (1996) (17)
- Remote-coupled sensing of plasma harmonics and process end-point detection (2000) (17)
- Control in the Process Industries (2011) (17)
- Cause and Effect Analysis in Chemical Processes Utilizing Plant Connectivity Information (2007) (16)
- Dynamic Simulation and Control of Post-combustion CO2 Capture with MEA in a Gas Fired Power Plant (2014) (16)
- Multivariate Detection of Power System Disturbances Based on Fourth Order Moment and Singular Value Decomposition (2017) (16)
- Analysis of noise and bias in fermentation oxygen uptake rate data. (1992) (16)
- Nonstationary Discrete Convolution Kernel for Multimodal Process Monitoring (2019) (15)
- Control of centrifugal compressors via model predictive control for enhanced oil recovery applications (2015) (15)
- Energy Induced Separation Network Synthesis of an Olefin Compression Section: A Case Study (2011) (15)
- Integration of stochastic simulation with multivariate analysis: Short‐term facility fit prediction (2013) (15)
- Rf probe technology for the next generation of technological plasmas (2001) (14)
- Multivariate Detection of Transient Disturbances for Uni- and Multirate Systems (2015) (14)
- Adaptive detection and prediction of performance degradation in off-shore turbomachinery (2020) (14)
- A novel method for the on-line analysis of fermentation broth using a sampling device, microcentrifuge and HPLC (1993) (14)
- Dry weight measurement of microbial biomass and measurement variability analysis (1992) (14)
- A process systems engineering view of biochemical process operations (1996) (13)
- Principal component analysis of plasma harmonics in end-point detection of photoresist stripping (1999) (13)
- Principal Component Score Modeling for the Rapid Description of Chromatographic Separations (2008) (13)
- Dynamic Principal Component Analysis Using Integral Transforms (1998) (12)
- A test system model for stability studies of UK power grid (2013) (12)
- Towards a radio-controlled time synchronized wireless sensor network: A work in-progress paper (2010) (12)
- DETECTION AND DIAGNOSIS OF UNIT-WIDE OSCILLATIONS (2000) (11)
- Diagnosis of a unit-wide disturbance caused by saturation in a manipulated variable (2004) (11)
- Modeling and Optimization of Industrial Centrifugal Compressor Stations Employing Data-Driven Methods (2014) (11)
- An on-line framework for monitoring nonlinear processes with multiple operating modes (2020) (11)
- Measurement variability analysis for fermentation process assays (1995) (11)
- A Method of using off-line Measurements in an On-line Estimator of Biomass Concentration for a Penicillin Fermentation, and its Effects on the Quality of the Estimates (1992) (11)
- Cause and effect analysis of chemical processes analysis of a plant-wide disturbance (2005) (11)
- Inferential measurement of SAG mill parameters III: inferential models (2002) (11)
- INFERENTIAL MEASUREMENT OF SAG MILL PARAMETERS V: MPC SIMULATION (2009) (11)
- Derivation of Diagnostic Models Based on Formalized Process Knowledge (2014) (10)
- Automatic generation of bond graph models of process plants (2008) (10)
- Cost benefit analysis of refinery process data: case study (1998) (10)
- Wireless communication in process control loop: Requirements analysis, industry practices and experimental evaluation (2014) (10)
- Inferential measurement of sag mill parameters IV: Inferential model validation (2009) (10)
- Path analysis for process troubleshooting (2002) (10)
- Locating the Source of a Disturbance (2007) (9)
- The effects of aeration and agitation on the measurement of yeast biomass using a laser turbidity probe (1997) (9)
- Rogue seasonality detection in supply chains (2012) (9)
- Using the Process Schematic in Plant-wide Disturbance Analysis (2006) (9)
- Online alarm flood classification using alarm coactivations (2018) (9)
- The use of principal component analysis for the modelling of high performance liquid chromatography (1999) (9)
- A survey of models of degradation for control applications (2020) (9)
- Variable Selection for Fault Detection and Identification based on Mutual Information of Alarm Series (2019) (8)
- Importance of auxiliary systems for process fault detection and diagnosis (2011) (8)
- Process Disturbance Cause & Effect Analysis Using Bayesian Networks (2015) (7)
- Supercritical fluid recycle for surge control of CO2 centrifugal compressors (2016) (7)
- Anomaly Detection and Mode Identification in Multimode Processes Using the Field Kalman Filter (2021) (7)
- Measuring Cause and Effect between Process Variables (2005) (7)
- A frequency domain measurement diagnostic technique for plasma-tools (2004) (7)
- Control Loop Performance Assessment for Power Plants (2006) (6)
- Forecasting of process disturbances using k-nearest neighbours, with an application in process control (2019) (6)
- Preprocessing of raw data for developing steady-state data-driven models for optimizing compressor stations (2014) (6)
- DETECTION OF PLANT-WIDE DISTURBANCES USING A SPECTRAL CLASSIFICATION TREE (2006) (6)
- On improving fault detection and diagnosis using alarm-range normalisation (2018) (6)
- Linking process, electrical and logical connectivity for supported fault diagnosis (2015) (6)
- Online Performance Monitoring of Industrial Compressors Using Meanline Modelling (2014) (6)
- Process harmonic pulling in RIE plasma-tool (2006) (5)
- Physical modelling of industrial multistage centrifugal compressors for monitoring and simulation (2015) (5)
- Computer-aided plant auditing made possible by successful university cooperation (2005) (5)
- Simultaneous Nonlinear Reconciliation and Update of Parameters for Online Use of First-Principles Models: An Industrial Case-Study on Compressors (2014) (5)
- Measuring cause and effect of process variables (2005) (5)
- Optimal Operation and Maintenance of Gas Compressor Stations: An Integrated Framework Applied to a Large-Scale Industrial Case (2015) (5)
- Simulation approach to reliability analysis of WAMPAC system (2015) (5)
- Prediction of biopharmaceutical facility fit issues using decision tree analysis (2013) (5)
- A Detailed Mathematical Modelling Representation of Clean Water Treatment Plants (2015) (5)
- A Test Model of a Power Grid With Battery Energy Storage and Wide-Area Monitoring (2019) (5)
- Quantifying the demand-side response capability of industrial plants to participate in power system frequency control schemes (2015) (5)
- Statistical Monitoring of Processes with Multiple Operating Modes (2019) (5)
- Two methods of selecting smoothing splines applied to fermentation process data (1994) (5)
- Integration of alarm design in fault detection and diagnosis through alarm-range normalization (2020) (5)
- An open-source educational toolbox for power system frequency control tuning and optimization (2013) (5)
- Removal of transient disturbances from oscillating measurements using nearest neighbors imputation (2016) (4)
- Monitoring Statistics and Tuning of Kernel Principal Component Analysis With Radial Basis Function Kernels (2020) (4)
- Operational Optimization of Compressors in Parallel Considering Condition-Based Maintenance (2014) (4)
- Towards the development of a tool for visualising plantwide dependencies (2014) (4)
- Industrial PID Control Loop Data Repository and Comparison of Fault Detection Methods (2019) (4)
- Assessment of Flexible Operation in an LNG Plant (2018) (3)
- Integration, navigation and exploration of plant topology networks using the property-graph model (2014) (3)
- Time series reconstruction from quantized measurements (2001) (3)
- Challenges of the application of data-driven models for the real-time optimization of an industrial air separation plant (2016) (3)
- Process performance analysis in large-scale systems integrating different sources of information (2012) (3)
- Integration of stochastic simulation with advanced multivariate and visualisation analyses for rapid prediction of facility fit issues in biopharmaceutical processes (2011) (3)
- Optimal controlled variable selection using a nonlinear simulation-optimization framework (2011) (3)
- Systematic One Zone Meanline Modelling of Centrifugal Compressors for Industrial Online Applications (2013) (3)
- Determining the propagation path of a disturbance in multi-rate process and electromechanical systems (2016) (3)
- Different Types of Faults in Control Valves (2008) (3)
- The Design and Implementation of a Comparative Reasoning Tool for Fermentations (1992) (3)
- Influence of compressor degradation on optimal operation of a compressor station (2020) (3)
- Reliability improvement of compressors based on asset fleet reliability data (2018) (3)
- Compressor map approximation using Chebyshev polynomials (2017) (3)
- From oscillatory to non-oscillatory disturbances: A comparative review of root cause analysis methods (2022) (3)
- The Use of Carbon Dioxide Evolution Rate in Consistency Checking Other Fermenter Sensor Outputs (1989) (3)
- Describing Function Analysis (2008) (3)
- Forecast of persistent disturbances using k-nearest neighbour methods (2018) (3)
- CLOSED LOOP IDENTIFICATION BASED ON QUANTIZATION (2002) (3)
- Turbomachinery Degradation Monitoring Using Adaptive Trend Analysis (2019) (3)
- DATA COMPRESSION FOR PROCESS MONITORING (1996) (2)
- Bispectrum and Bicoherence (2008) (2)
- Modelling Valve Stiction 1 (2004) (2)
- A Nonlinearity Measure Based on Surrogate Data Analysis (2008) (2)
- Experiences of statistical quality control with BP Chemicals, Grangemouth (1999) (2)
- Environment Aware Sampling For Sensor Networks (2007) (2)
- Fermentation Fault Diagnosis Using Analytical Redundancy (1989) (2)
- Manufacturability Indices for High-Concentration Monoclonal Antibody Formulations (2015) (2)
- Management and Monitoring of Process Assets (2)
- Measures of Nonlinearity – A Review (2008) (2)
- Monitoring and control of fermentation (1988) (2)
- Supercritical gas recycle analysis for surge control of centrifugal compressors (2015) (2)
- Linear or Nonlinear? A Bicoherence-Based Measure of Nonlinearity (2008) (2)
- Load-Sharing Strategy Taking Account of Compressor Degradation (2018) (2)
- Harmonic monitoring of the switched silicon etched process (2003) (2)
- An MPC with Disturbance Forecasting for the Control of the Level of a Tank with Limited Buffer Capacity (2018) (1)
- Determining the minimum energy requirement of an LNG process: New insights into the impact of the vapour liquid equilibrium (2020) (1)
- Investigations on Information-rich Visualizations to Explore Process Connectivity and Causality (2014) (1)
- Towards the development of a wireless network node lifetime calculation tool (2013) (1)
- Operational and Maintenance Planning of Compressors Networks in Air Separation Plants (2017) (1)
- Diagnosis of Plant-wide Oscillations (2008) (1)
- Nonlinearities in Control Loops (2008) (1)
- Determining the propagation path of a disturbance in multi-rate systems (2015) (1)
- Use of a Graphical Programming Environment for the Rapid Development of Custom Software for Fermentation Process Control (1992) (1)
- Impact of Data Compression and Quantization on Data-Driven Process Analyses (2008) (1)
- Diagnosis of Poor Control Performance (2008) (1)
- Cost Benefit Analysis of Refinery Process Data used for Plant Performance Analysis (1998) (1)
- A Governing Equation Based Fault Detection and Diagnosis Algorithm Application in A Chemical Plant and Its (1998) (0)
- Monitoring and management of power transmission dynamics in an industrial smart grid (2013) (0)
- Oxygen plasma harmonic stability in a RIE plasma tool (2004) (0)
- Physics-Based Model of Control Valve Stiction (2008) (0)
- Flexible operation of a mixed fluid cascade LNG plant for electrical power management (2022) (0)
- A SIMPLE TEST TO CONFIRM CONTROL VALVE (2005) (0)
- Practical implementation of control loop benchmarking (2002) (0)
- Remote-coupled Oxygen Plasma Harmonic Measurements for Process Monitoring (2003) (0)
- upercritical fluid recycle for surge control of CO 2 centrifugal ompressors (2016) (0)
- Industrial Applications of the Stiction Quantification Algorithm (2008) (0)
- On-line Sampling and Analysis of Fermentation Broth using a Novel Sampling Device, Microcentrifuge and HPLC (1992) (0)
- Fault Detection and Identification in Fermenters (1992) (0)
- An integrated control technique for compressor operation (2014) (0)
- Detection and diagnosis of distributed disturbances in chemical processes (2005) (0)
- Book announcements (2009) (0)
- Dynamic Modelling and Control of a Compressor Using Chebyshev Polynomial Approximation (2018) (0)
- Higher-Order Statistics: Preliminaries (2008) (0)
- Detecting disturbances in a supply chain echelon via spectral PCA (2005) (0)
- Adapting nearest neighbors-based monitoring methods to irregularly sampled measurements (2015) (0)
- Stiction: Definition and Discussions (2008) (0)
- Title : Rogue Seasonality Detection in Supply Chains (2012) (0)
- Dynamical uncertainty measurement in supply networks (2002) (0)
- A Test Model of a Power Grid With Battery Energy Storage and Wide-Area Monitoring (2020) (0)
- Plasma harmonics as a sensitive probe of process conditions (2003) (0)
- Dynamics uncertainty measurement in supply chains (2002) (0)
- The assessment of performance of multivariable controllers (2002) (0)
- Detection of Plantwide Oscillations (2008) (0)
- On-line recognition of CO (1996) (0)
- PLASMA HARMONICS LISSAJOUS MEASUREMENTS (2023) (0)
- Amplitude and phase measurement of plasma harmonics in a photoresist etching process (2003) (0)
- Detecting faults in fermentation processes, with an example using analytical redundancy (1989) (0)
- Load-Sharing With Degradation Management in a Compressor Station (2023) (0)
- Optimal operation of compressors in terms of power and efficiency (2021) (0)
- Harmonic measurements of RF technological plasmas (2004) (0)
- Reduction of alerts in automated systems based on a combined analysis of process connectivity and alarm logs (2011) (0)
- To be appeared in ADCHEM 2003, Jan. 11-14, 2004, Hong Kong A DATA-DRIVEN MODEL FOR VALVE STICTION (2003) (0)
- Plantwide disturbance analysis of the Valhall oil & gas production (2005) (0)
- Detection and diagnosis of plant Detection and diagnosis of plant- - wide disturbances wide disturbances (2002) (0)
- A probability chart for statistical process analysis, with applications (1996) (0)
- Confirming Valve Stiction (2008) (0)
- Application of partial least squares to sparse data sets for design and optimisation of chromatographic separations (2006) (0)
- Automatic Detection and Quantification of Valve Stiction (2008) (0)
- Brief paper Detectingand isolatingmultiple plant-wide oscillations via spectral independent component analysis (2005) (0)
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