Incipient Fault Detection for Chemical Processes Using Two-Dimensional Weighted SLKPCA

Abstract

Early detection of incipient faults is a challenging task in chemical process monitoring field. As an effective incipient fault detection tool, statistical local kernel principal component analysis (SLKPCA) has demonstrated its advantage over the traditional kernel principal component analysis (KPCA). However, how to improve its incipient fault detection performance is still a valuable problem. In this paper, an enhanced SLKPCA method, referred to as two-dimensional weighted SLKPCA (TWSLKPCA), is proposed by integrating the sample and component weighting strategies. Different to KPCA, SLKPCA monitors the process changes based on the residual vectors computed by the statistical local approach. To highlight the influence of the faulty residual samples, the residual sample weighting strategy is first designed based on the distance between the tested samples and the training samples, which puts large weights on the samples with strong fault information. Furthermore, the residual component weighting strategy i...