Time Sequential Phase Partition and Modeling Method for Fault Detection of Batch Processes

Abstract

Different operation phases in batch processes cover distinguishing behaviors, so establishing statistical models for each identical phase become an effective way for batch monitoring. In this paper, a new adaptive phase partition and online fault detection method is proposed, which can track the phase's transition by time sequence and has less reliance on parameters' selection. The discussion and analysis of this proposed method follows. In this proposed method, the information contained in every sample time will be evaluated, and the change tendency of feature is demonstrated on a batch prospect. Then, two control bounds are designed for the feature tendency, the stable, and the transitional phases that have a different feature level and play certainly roles in process operation, will be identified automatically. For online monitoring, the new fault detection strategy is composed of modeling the PCA and PLS statistical methods for each identified phase, three statistics are established to ensure the data-decomposing reliable. The proposed method is applied to the industrial penicillin fermentation process, and the experimental result shows better performance in phase partition and fault detection.

Keywords

• Multi-phase monitoring
• adaptive phase partition method
• information evaluation
• feature tendency
• fault detection strategy