Removal of transient disturbances from oscillating measurements using nearest neighbors imputation

© 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Transient disturbances in process measurements compromise the accuracy of some methods for plant-wide oscillation analysis. This paper presents a method to remove such transients while maintaining the dynamic features of the original measurement. The method is based on a nearest neighbors imputation technique. It replaces the removed transient with an estimate which is based on the time series of the whole measurement. The method is demonstrated on experimental and industrial case studies. The results demonstrate the efficacy of the method and recommended parameters. Furthermore, inconsistency indices are proposed which facilitate the automation of the method