Performance Comparison of Multiple Neural Networks for Fault Detection of Sensors Array in Oil Heating Reactor

Abstract

Fault detection is an important issue for early failure revelation and machine components preserving before the damage. The processes of fault detection, diagnosis and correction especially in oil heating reactor sensors are among the most crucial steps for reliable and proper operation inside the reactor.The fault detection in sensors array of heating reactor is considered as an important tool to guarantee that the controller can take the best possible action to insure the quality of the output. In this paper, fault detection for the temperature sensor in oil heating reactor using different types of faults with different levels is addressed. Multiple approaches based on Neural Network (NN)s such as the classical Fully Connected Neural Network (FCNN), Bidirectional Long Short Term Memory network (BiLSTM) based on Recurrent Neural Network (R.N.N.) and Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) are suggested for this purpose. The suggested networks are trained and tested on real dataset sequences taken from sensors array readings of real heating reactor in Egypt. The performance comparison of the suggested networks is evaluated using different metrics such as “confusion matrix”, accuracy, precision, etc. The various NN are simulated, trained and tested in this paper using MATLAB software 2021 and the advanced tool of “DeepNetworkDesigner”. The simulation results prove that CNN outperforms the other comparative networks with classification accuracy reached to 100% with different levels and different types of faults.