15th Triennial World Congress of the International Federation of Automatic Control
  Barcelona, 21–26 July 2002 
EVALUATION OF LEVEL CONTROL PERFORMANCE
S-L. Jämsä-Jounela, R. Poikonen, K. Halmevaara
Helsinki University of Technology
Laboratory of Process Control and Automation
Kemistintie 1,02150 Espoo, FINLAND
E-mail: Sirkka-l@hut.fi

Various kinds of control performance index have been studied widely during the last decade. In this paper a set of performance indices appropriate to level control is chosen and a fast, simple, online method is presented for monitoring the control loops. A graphical, user-friendly and interpretable display for operators to display performance indices has been developed that can be easily implemented for any control system. This tool can be used for statistical monitoring of control loops, predictive maintenance, fault diagnosis, and for tuning the controllers. Tests were performed with a pilot flotation cell, and the results are presented and discussed in this paper.
Keywords: level control, performance indices, monitoring, oscillation, fault detection
Session slot T-Tu-E12: Economic Evaluation of Process Automation in Mineral and Metal Processing/Area code 7b : Mining, Mineral and Metal Processing