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PhD IN PLANT-WIDE FAULT DIAGNOSIS EXPLOITING PROCESS CONNECTIVITY 

INFORMATION.



A PhD studentship of three years duration sponsored by a blue-chip 

industrial company is available starting as soon as possible after 1st 

October 2007. The studentship offers a stipend of 14,600 UK pounds p.a. 

plus tuition fees (home or international). The stipend increases each year 

with inflation. The studentship is in the Centre for Process Systems 

Engineering (CPSE) within the Department of Chemical Engineering at 

Imperial College London. The academic project supervisor is Professor Nina 

F. Thornhill.



The aim of the project is to conduct research and establish new ways to 

capture and manipulate information from the schematic of a chemical process 

or refinery (a diagram showing the layout of the plant) in order to give an 

automated means of diagnosing operating problems. The practical outcome 

will be improved fault diagnosis using measurements, information from the 

process schematic and process understanding (know-how). 



The student will have an opportunity of a placement with the sponsoring 

company to conduct trials of his or her research ideas.



Further details and information about how to apply are at:

http://personal-pages.ps.ic.ac.uk/~nina/Recruitment/FurtherParticulars.pdf



Closing Date:  25 September 2007. 

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Further information regarding Imperial College may be found at:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/

and information about the Department of Chemical Engineering is at:

http://www3.imperial.ac.uk/chemicalengineering

For further information about the CPSE and the research area:

http://www.ps.ic.ac.uk/about/?id=overview and 

http://personal-pages.ps.ic.ac.uk/~nina/

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