A fault diagnosis method for nuclear power plants rotating machinery based on deep learning under imbalanced samples

Abstract

Rotating machinery is a critical equipment widely used in nuclear power plants (NPPs). Effective fault diagnosis technology can provide reliable operation and maintenance support for rotating machinery. Data-driven intelligent fault diagnosis technology has attracted much attention in recent years. However, in practical situations, the available fault data is limited, and the imbalanced samples will make the intelligent fault diagnosis model prone to problems such as poor generalization performance and low diagnostic accuracy. Therefore, a fault diagnosis method based on deep learning is proposed to alleviate the impact of imbalanced samples on fault diagnosis of rotating machinery. First, the adaptive synthetic sampling (ADASYN) approach is used to synthesize the multi-channel vibration data to expand the unbalanced samples. Subsequently, ensemble empirical mode decomposition (EEMD) and continuous wavelet transform (CWT) are used to convert the vibration data into time–frequency images to highlight the fault features of the samples. Then, the deep residual neural network is constructed to extract the features of mixed samples and implement fault diagnosis. Fault simulation experiments are carried out based on motors and bearings, and various imbalance degree datasets are formed to provide data support for verifying the effectiveness of the proposed method. The proposed method can achieve good diagnostic performance under various degrees of imbalanced samples. In addition, the comparison results with other methods show that the proposed method has the best comprehensive performance, demonstrating the potential application value in the fault diagnosis of NPPs rotating machinery.