Multivariate Analysis?
Multivariate Analysis?
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I have have a flow of reagent (Methanol) entering 21 process users across my plant. Some users uses the Methanol as fuel others as solvent and some as reagents...
Could one suggest the best way of knowing/classifying these users are causing High methanol usage during a given period?
I'm thinking of using PCA but not sure if that is over-killing the problem... A simple Pareto Chart maybe?
Thank you for your suggestions.
Could one suggest the best way of knowing/classifying these users are causing High methanol usage during a given period?
I'm thinking of using PCA but not sure if that is over-killing the problem... A simple Pareto Chart maybe?
Thank you for your suggestions.





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At best total ("integral") flows per users will help build a Pareto Chart which was mentioned in the Original Post.
Is PCA the best way of classifying user while determining the pattern at which users are affecting the overall methanol consumption?
Thank you for your hints.
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Math is not going to tell you which of 21 aggregated users is using what.
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@IRstuff (Aerospace) wordings tells a lot about I.Q. but we're digressing here...
Let's bring the discussing back on track...
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Can anyone suggest means to monitor users consumption pattern in a network of 21 users.
The goal is to know at a given time period, which user is inducing more variability in plant total Methanol consumption.
Trends of flow rates to these 21 users is available. But it's not trivial to screen 21 trends...
Could Principal Component analysis help here or just using a Pareto Plot? Or any other insightful methods?
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Huh? I thought you didn't have measurements? If you have the measurements, you have the consumption.
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A sample of "real life" trend is attached. That's what we, Engineers, are tuning into executive information...
Once again "If you have the measurements, you "DON'T" have the consumption."
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This post is meant to enhance the knowledge sharing of this forum.
Here is the problem statement:
As shown on attached trends(above), I have a set of raw process data of which I would like to extract information.
For instance, identify among the 21 users which one is inducing more variability in the main flow to the methanol header.
I would like a peer "ENGINEER" with knowledge in statistics/data mining to suggest which approach will be appropriate.
ANOVA, PCA, FA or Pareto Plot?
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So, what problem are you actually trying to solve? Until you know this then you are lost.
One you know that the following questions may be applicable.
What measure of variability is acceptable to you?
Are you only interested in periods where total demand is close to maximum? How close?
What time period do you want to average over?
Are you really only interested in the variability of each users demand, or are you also interested in the average demand of each user in the time period of interest?
Can you assume that each user's requirements are independent of the others?
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One major issue with ANOVA is that it really isn't suited for nonlinear processes like flow systems. IMO.
You might think about getting pressure independent flow control valves (a company called FCI makes a valve that would work for methanol) for the users, to seperate their flow rate from what appears to be a variable system pressure. But then, again, I'm guessing as to what the real problem is.
RE: Multivariate Analysis?
Variable demands by each user result in a variable total flow required, averaged over a time period T. We'd like to know (1) which users are contributing most to the variability, and (2) if we can explain the peak demands by looking at a subset of the users.
Peak demand is defined as a total flow rate greater than P.
For T I'd guess using something like total system capacity/P/10 as a first guess
So, as IRStuff suggested right at the top, integrate each user flow over period T. Call these U1 to U21, and the total flow F= sum(U1..U21). This gives less data to handle and eliminates possibly spurious high frequency peaks.
Then examine the data (essential step in any statistics). In this case I suggest plotting a scatter plot for each U versus F. At that point hopefully some relationships will stand out. If they don't, no amount of statistical fiddling will produce a reliable model.
(1) is pretty easy, just the standard deviation or 90%ile range for each U
(2) will depend on what you've seen in the scatter plots.
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@GregLocock (Automotive) Your problem statement is exact and quite elegant as you uses fewer word! Thanks.
(1) is there a way of coupling the standard deviation with the flow rate... A kind of "weighted" standard deviation?
(2) I will share the findings tomorrow after implementing these scatter plots ( U versus F). But I anticipate noisy and non-linear plots.
@btrueblood (Mechanical) Interesting to know that ANOVA doesn't suit nonlinear processes. Could you please give a reference of the FCI valve you mentioned?
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Yes, divide SD by mean...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coefficient_of_varia...
It is not as useful as you might hoped for your purposes where the main issue is the sum of all the users, not the relative instability of any one process.
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see www.flowcontrol.com
There are other devices that might work...but I know the referenced valve will work because I designed it...:)