Fault detection and identification using a Kullback-Leibler divergence based multi-block principal component analysis and bayesian inference

Abstract

Considering the huge number of variables in plant-wide process monitoring and complex relationships (linear, nonlinear, partial correlation, or independence) among these variables, multivariate statistical process monitoring (MSPM) performance may be deteriorated especially by the independent variables. Meanwhile, whether related variables keep high concordance during the variation process is still a question. Under this circumstance, a multi-block technology based on mathematical statistics method, Kullback-Leibler Divergence, is proposed to put the variables having similar statistical characteristics into the same block, and then build principal component analysis (PCA) models in each low-dimensional subspace. Bayesian inference is also employed to combine the monitoring results from each sub-block into the final monitoring statistics. Additionally, a novel fault diagnosis approach is developed for fault identification. The superiority of the proposed method is demonstrated by applications on a simple simulated multivariate process and the Tennessee Eastman benchmark process.