TY - UNPB T2 - ADCHEM 2003 A1 - Choudhury, M.A.A.S. A1 - Thornhill, N.F. A1 - Shah, S.L. TI - A data-driven model for valve stiction ID - discovery486 Y1 - 2003/01/11/ UR - https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/486/ N1 - Unpublished AV - public M2 - Hong Kong N2 - The presence of nonlinearities, e.g., striction, hysteresis and backlash in a control valve limits the control loop performance. Striction is the most common problem in spring-diaphragm type valves, which are widely used in the process industry. Though there have been many attempts (EnTech, 1998; Gerry and Ruel, 2001; Horch and Isaksson, 1998; Taha et al., 1996; Piipponen, 1996; McMillan, 1995) to understand the stiction phenomena and model it, there is a lack of a proper model which can be understood and related directly to the practical situation as observed in a real valve in the process industry. This study focuses on the understanding, from real life data, of the mechanism that causes stiction and proposes a new data-driven model of stiction, which can be directly related to real valves. It compares simulation results generated using the proposed model with industrial data. KW - stiction KW - stickband KW - deadband KW - hysteresis KW - backlash KW - control valve KW - static friction KW - viscous friction KW - nonlinearity KW - slip jump KW - control loop performance ER -