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Citations
7871
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3735
National Ranking
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Research.com Recognitions

  • 2009 - Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK)

Overview

Nina F. Thornhill is affiliated with Imperial College London in the United Kingdom, focusing primarily on engineering research. Their work spans several subfields, including Control and Systems Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Statistics, Probability and Uncertainty, Aerospace Engineering, and Renewable Energy, Sustainability and the Environment.

Their research covers a range of topics, prominently featuring Fault Detection and Control Systems, Machine Fault Diagnosis Techniques, Mineral Processing and Grinding, Advanced Statistical Process Monitoring, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Technologies, Turbomachinery Performance and Optimization, and Global Energy and Sustainability Research.

Recent publications include:

  • "A survey of models of degradation for control applications," 2020, Annual Reviews in Control
  • "An on-line framework for monitoring nonlinear processes with multiple operating modes," 2020, Journal of Process Control
  • "Adaptive detection and prediction of performance degradation in off-shore turbomachinery," 2020, Applied Energy
  • "Monitoring Statistics and Tuning of Kernel Principal Component Analysis With Radial Basis Function Kernels," 2020, IEEE Access
  • "Anomaly Detection and Mode Identification in Multimode Processes Using the Field Kalman Filter," 2020, IEEE Transactions on Control Systems Technology

Frequent co-authors include Marta Zagórowska, James R. Ottewill, Trond Haugen, Ruomu Tan, and Charlotte Skourup. This collaboration highlights interdisciplinary links especially in control systems and process monitoring.

Their publications have appeared frequently in venues such as the Journal of Process Control, IEEE Access, Computers & Chemical Engineering, Energy, and Annual Reviews in Control.

In recognition of contributions to engineering, they were awarded the title of Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (UK) in 2009.

Best Publications

  • Modelling valve stiction

    M.A.A. Shoukat Choudhury;N.F. Thornhill;S.L. Shah

  • Detection of multiple oscillations in control loops

    N.F Thornhill;B Huang;H Zhang

  • Diagnosis of poor control-loop performance using higher-order statistics

    M. A. A. Shoukat Choudhury;Sirish. L. Shah;Nina. F. Thornhill

  • Finding the Direction of Disturbance Propagation in a Chemical Process Using Transfer Entropy

    M. Bauer;J.W. Cox;M.H. Caveness;J.J. Downs

  • Detection and Diagnosis of Oscillation in Control Loops

    N. F. Thornhill;Tore Hägglund

  • A continuous stirred tank heater simulation model with applications

    Nina F. Thornhill;Sachin C. Patwardhan;Sirish L. Shah

  • Advances and new directions in plant-wide disturbance detection and diagnosis

    Nina F. Thornhill;Alexander Horch

  • Automatic detection and quantification of stiction in control valves

    M.A.A. Shoukat Choudhury;S.L. Shah;N.F. Thornhill;David S. Shook

  • Refinery-wide control loop performance assessment

    N.F. Thornhill;M. Oettinger;P. Fedenczuk

  • A Dynamic Mode Decomposition Framework for Global Power System Oscillation Analysis

    Emilio Barocio;Bikash C. Pal;Nina F. Thornhill;Arturo Roman Messina

  • Coherency identification in power systems through principal component analysis

    K.K. Anaparthi;B. Chaudhuri;N.F. Thornhill;B.C. Pal

  • A practical method for identifying the propagation path of plant-wide disturbances

    Margret Bauer;Nina F. Thornhill

  • Diagnosis of plant-wide oscillation through data-driven analysis and process understanding

    Nina F. Thornhill;John W. Cox;Michael A. Paulonis

  • Diagnosis of Process Nonlinearities and Valve Stiction: Data Driven Approaches

    M.A.A. Schoukat Choudhury;S. L. Shah;Nina F. Thornhill

  • The current state of control loop performance monitoring – A survey of application in industry

    Margret Bauer;Alexander Horch;Lei Xie;Mohieddine Jelali

  • Detection and Diagnosis of Stiction in Control Loops State of the Art and Advanced Methods

    Shoukat Choudhury;Peter He;Alexander Horch;Manabu Kano

  • Finding the source of nonlinearity in a process with plant-wide oscillation

    N.F. Thornhill

  • Comparison of Three Electromechanical Oscillation Damping Estimation Methods

    J. Turunen;J. Thambirajah;M. Larsson;B. C. Pal

  • CAUSE AND EFFECT ANALYSIS IN CHEMICAL PROCESSES UTILIZING XML, PLANT CONNECTIVITY AND QUANTITATIVE PROCESS HISTORY

    Jegatheeswaran Thambirajah;Lamia Benabbas;Margret Bauer;Nina F. Thornhill

  • Practical solutions to multivariate feedback control performance assessment problem: reduced a priori knowledge of interactor matrices

    Biao Huang;Steven X. Ding;Nina Thornhill

  • The impact of compression on data-driven process analyses

    NF Thornhill;Maa Shoukat Choudhury;SL Shah

Frequent Co-Authors

Sirish L. Shah
Sirish L. Shah University of Alberta
Bikash C. Pal
Bikash C. Pal Imperial College London
Biao Huang
Biao Huang University of Alberta
Steven X. Ding
Steven X. Ding University of Duisburg-Essen
Thomas Parisini
Thomas Parisini University of Trieste
Balarko Chaudhuri
Balarko Chaudhuri Imperial College London
Tore Hägglund
Tore Hägglund Lund University
Alwyn J. Seeds
Alwyn J. Seeds University College London

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