CONTROL VALVES FAULT DETECTION AND MONITORING SYSTEM USING ACOUSTIC EMISSION

Since Control Valves have significant importance in any process plant As they are used in manipulating the flow rates through processes. As they are the key components in any control systems. Malfunctioning control valves will degrade the control loop performance and cause the unscheduled system shutdown thus, resulting in unnecessary economic losses. This Project is all about solving the above issue, it uses Acoustic Emission technique to monitor and detect faults in valves, through extensive studies elaborated in the literature review, this technique has proved to be efficient and successful in terms of detecting cracks, faults in different materials. Therefore it will be used in our project to develop a fault monitoring system for valves using acoustic emission equipment.