Parsing intelligent P&IDs - Finding process paths - Linking topology and causal signal analysis - Decision support tools - Plant-wide control design - models from P&IDs

Topology Modern intelligent P&IDs show items of equipment and the links between them (the process topology), and also store the information in a data model.

We use this information to capture and manipulate electronic plant topology information. Linking topology information with results from signal-based analysis makes it possible to do greatly enhanced monitoring and diagnosis of processes, controllers and equipment.

These ideas are inspired by what control engineers do when they are troubleshooting a process. The natural first step is to open up the folder of paper P&IDs (which is usually huge and heavy with many pages) to find the locations of disturbed measurements in the drawings and then to trace paths through the plant. We aim to automate this procedure.

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Nina Thornhill, ABB/RAEng Professor of Process Automation
Centre for Process Systems Engineering
Department of Chemical Engineering
Imperial College London
South Kensington Campus, London SW7 2AZ

Tel: +44 (0)20 7594 6622
Email: n.thornhill@imperial.ac.uk