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From: Application of the Monte Carlo Method for Capacitive Pressure Transmitters Surveillance in Nuclear Power Plants
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Figure Legend:
Analytical PSD of the impulse response of a transmitter coupled to its sensing line

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Response to a pressure ramp in arbitrary units (a.u.) obtained with an AR model and ramp time delay measurement

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Figure Legend:
PSD obtained through Fourier analysis (gray) and PSD estimated with an AR model (black)

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Figure Legend:
AR estimation of the PSD for two different sensing lines

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Figure Legend:
Statistical distribution of the response time (ramp time delay) of transmitter coupled with a short sensing line

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Figure Legend:
Response time (ramp time delay) statistical distributions of transmitters coupled to a long sensing line: (a) 31 m sensing line: τ¯=0.15  s and στ = 0.05 s. (b) 65 m sensing line: τ¯=0.15  s and στ = 0.05 s.

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From: Application of the Monte Carlo Method for Capacitive Pressure Transmitters Surveillance in Nuclear Power Plants
J. Dyn. Sys., Meas., Control. 2012;134(3): doi: /
Figure Legend:
(a) Monte Carlo simulation obtained with n = 5 (Akaike order) for a transmitter coupled to a short sensing line (12 m). (b) Monte Carlo simulation with n = 5 (Akaike order) for a long sensing line (26 m). (c) Monte Carlo simulation with n = 10 (higher order for high kurtosis) for a short sensing line (12 m). (d) Monte Carlo simulation with n = 10 (higher order for high kurtosis) for a long sensing line (26 m). In all cases, response time is the ramp time delay.

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From: Application of the Monte Carlo Method for Capacitive Pressure Transmitters Surveillance in Nuclear Power Plants
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Figure Legend:
PSD from noise signal S1 from a pressure capacitive transmitter from a NPP

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From: Application of the Monte Carlo Method for Capacitive Pressure Transmitters Surveillance in Nuclear Power Plants
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Figure Legend:
PSD from a sample (1000 points) taken from noise signal S1 whose record length is 15,000 points

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Figure Legend:
Empirical PSD in arbitrary units (a.u.) from a pressure transmitter without its sensing line []

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Figure Legend:
Electrical analogy of the pressure transmitter coupled to its sensing line

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Figure Legend:
Numerical simulation of the transmitter response to a white noise

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From: Application of the Monte Carlo Method for Capacitive Pressure Transmitters Surveillance in Nuclear Power Plants
J. Dyn. Sys., Meas., Control. 2012;134(3): doi: /
Figure Legend:
Autocorrelation function in arbitrary units (a.u.) of the simulated response to a driven white noise