Marais, Henri-JeanVan Schoor, GeorgeUren, Kenneth R.2017-01-202017-01-202015Marais, H.-J. et al. 2015. An energy-based approach to condition monitoring of industrial processes. 9th IFAC Symposium on Fault Detection, Supervision and Safety for Technical Processes, SAFEPROCESS 2015, Paris, 2–4 September. IFAC-PapersOnLine, 48(21):772-777. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.09.620]2405-8963 (Online)1474-6670http://hdl.handle.net/10394/19840https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2405896315017498https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ifacol.2015.09.620Condition monitoring has traditionally been deployed for the monitoring of a single component, such as a rotating electrical machine. The application of condition monitoring to an entire process plant has not yet received much attention. In this work we outline the challenges associated with plant-wide condition monitoring, and explore the possibility of using energy as the parameter of interest. The use of energy mitigates the multi-domain monitoring problem, and could also provide a hierarchical view of the process plant's condition. A simple chemical reactor is considered and it is shown that the energy parameter can be used to perform condition monitoring of such a reactor. The identified parameter is also sensitive to time domain variations. This indicates that the concept of using energy flows as the parameter of interest for process-wide condition monitoring applications has meritenCondition monitoringEnergyProcessIndustrialFault detectionPresentation