scholarly journals Fault Detection of a Reusable Rocket Engine using Phase Plane Trajectory of Feature Vectors

2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Seiji Tsutsumi ◽  
Miki Hirabayashi ◽  
Daiwa Sato ◽  
Masaharu Abe ◽  
Kaname Kawatsu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Fault Detection ◽  
Present Method ◽  
Phase Plane ◽  
Rocket Engine ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Sensor Failure ◽  
Plane Trajectory ◽  
Feature Vectors ◽  
Firing Test ◽  
Firing Tests

A bivariate time-series analysis based on the phase plane trajectory of feature vectors extracted by principal component analysis is developed for fault detection in a reusable liquid-propellant rocket engine. Static-firing test results of the reusable rocket engine obtained at the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency are employed for demonstration of the present method. The present method successfully detected temperature sensor failure from 19 firing tests of 62 sensors, even in the deviation of the engine operational sequence between the static-firing tests. The present method was also able to detect the system failure from 23 firing tests. Furthermore, the ability to distinguish the system and sensor failure was demonstrated.

Multiple faults detection and isolation approach applied to a kraft recovery boiler

TAPPI Journal ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41
Author(s):  
YVON THARRAULT ◽  
MOULOUD AMAZOUZ
Keyword(s):  
Fault Detection ◽  
Early Detection ◽  
False Alarm ◽  
False Alarm Rate ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Fault Isolation ◽  
Fault Detection And Isolation ◽  
Detection Scheme ◽  
Multiple Faults ◽  
Recovery Boiler

Recovery boilers play a key role in chemical pulp mills. Early detection of defects, such as water leaks, in a recovery boiler is critical to the prevention of explosions, which can occur when water reaches the molten smelt bed of the boiler. Early detection is difficult to achieve because of the complexity and the multitude of recovery boiler operating parameters. Multiple faults can occur in multiple components of the boiler simultaneously, and an efficient and robust fault isolation method is needed. In this paper, we present a new fault detection and isolation scheme for multiple faults. The proposed approach is based on principal component analysis (PCA), a popular fault detection technique. For fault detection, the Mahalanobis distance with an exponentially weighted moving average filter to reduce the false alarm rate is used. This filter is used to adapt the sensitivity of the fault detection scheme versus false alarm rate. For fault isolation, the reconstruction-based contribution is used. To avoid a combinatorial excess of faulty scenarios related to multiple faults, an iterative approach is used. This new method was validated using real data from a pulp and paper mill in Canada. The results demonstrate that the proposed method can effectively detect sensor faults and water leakage.

scholarly journals Monitoring a Reverse Osmosis Process with Kernel Principal Component Analysis: A Preliminary Approach

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (14) ◽  
pp. 6370
Author(s):  
Elena Quatrini ◽  
Francesco Costantino ◽  
David Mba ◽  
Xiaochuan Li ◽  
Tat-Hean Gan
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Fault Detection ◽  
Water Purification ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Temporal Correlation ◽  
Component Analysis ◽  
Kernel Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Original Dataset ◽  
Monitoring Process ◽  
Machine Health

The water purification process is becoming increasingly important to ensure the continuity and quality of subsequent production processes, and it is particularly relevant in pharmaceutical contexts. However, in this context, the difficulties arising during the monitoring process are manifold. On the one hand, the monitoring process reveals various discontinuities due to different characteristics of the input water. On the other hand, the monitoring process is discontinuous and random itself, thus not guaranteeing continuity of the parameters and hindering a straightforward analysis. Consequently, further research on water purification processes is paramount to identify the most suitable techniques able to guarantee good performance. Against this background, this paper proposes an application of kernel principal component analysis for fault detection in a process with the above-mentioned characteristics. Based on the temporal variability of the process, the paper suggests the use of past and future matrices as input for fault detection as an alternative to the original dataset. In this manner, the temporal correlation between process parameters and machine health is accounted for. The proposed approach confirms the possibility of obtaining very good monitoring results in the analyzed context.

scholarly journals A Novel Mutual Information and Partial Least Squares Approach for Quality-Related and Quality-Unrelated Fault Detection

Processes ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 166
Author(s):  
Majed Aljunaid ◽  
Yang Tao ◽  
Hongbo Shi
Keyword(s):  
Fault Detection ◽  
Mutual Information ◽  
Least Squares ◽  
Partial Least Squares ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
False Alarms ◽  
Total Quality ◽  
Process Variables ◽  
Tennessee Eastman Process ◽  
Value Decomposition

Partial least squares (PLS) and linear regression methods are widely utilized for quality-related fault detection in industrial processes. Standard PLS decomposes the process variables into principal and residual parts. However, as the principal part still contains many components unrelated to quality, if these components were not removed it could cause many false alarms. Besides, although these components do not affect product quality, they have a great impact on process safety and information about other faults. Removing and discarding these components will lead to a reduction in the detection rate of faults, unrelated to quality. To overcome the drawbacks of Standard PLS, a novel method, MI-PLS (mutual information PLS), is proposed in this paper. The proposed MI-PLS algorithm utilizes mutual information to divide the process variables into selected and residual components, and then uses singular value decomposition (SVD) to further decompose the selected part into quality-related and quality-unrelated components, subsequently constructing quality-related monitoring statistics. To ensure that there is no information loss and that the proposed MI-PLS can be used in quality-related and quality-unrelated fault detection, a principal component analysis (PCA) model is performed on the residual component to obtain its score matrix, which is combined with the quality-unrelated part to obtain the total quality-unrelated monitoring statistics. Finally, the proposed method is applied on a numerical example and Tennessee Eastman process. The proposed MI-PLS has a lower computational load and more robust performance compared with T-PLS and PCR.

Batch process monitoring based on global enhanced multiple neighborhoods preserving embedding

2021 ◽  
pp. 014233122110447
Author(s):  
Hongjuan Yao ◽  
Xiaoqiang Zhao ◽  
Wei Li ◽  
Yongyong Hui
Keyword(s):  
Principal Component Analysis ◽  
Fault Detection ◽  
Objective Function ◽  
Principal Component ◽  
Batch Process ◽  
Component Analysis ◽  
Support Vector ◽  
Support Vector Data Description ◽  
Order Information ◽  
Multiple Neighborhoods

Batch process generally has varying dynamic characteristic that causes low fault detection rate and high false alarm rate, and it is necessary and urgent to monitor batch process. This paper proposes a global enhanced multiple neighborhoods preserving embedding based fault detection strategy for dynamic batch process. Firstly, the angle neighbor is defined and selected to compensate for the insufficient expression for the spatial similarity of samples only by using the distance neighbor, and the time neighbor is introduced to describe the time correlations between samples. These three types of neighbors can fully characterize the similarity of the samples in time and space. Secondly, considering the minimum reconstruction error and the order information of three types of neighbors, an enhanced objective function is constructed to prevent the loss of order information when neighborhood preserving embedding (NPE) calculates the reconstruction weights. Furthermore, the enhanced objective function and a global objective function are organically combined to extract both global and local features, to describe process dynamics and visualize process data in a low-dimensional space. Finally, a monitoring index based on support vector data description is constructed to eliminate adverse effects of non-Gaussian data for monitoring performance. The advantages of the proposed method over principal component analysis, neighborhood preserving embedding, dynamic principal component analysis and time NPE are demonstrated by a numerical example and the penicillin fermentation process simulation.

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