Plant-wide process monitoring strategy based on complex network and Bayesian inference-based multi-block principal component analysis

Abstract

In this work, a novel process monitoring method in a block-wised partitioning manor is proposed for plant-wide processes which can be partitioned into several sub-blocks and monitored parallelly. The focus of this method is to reduce the high complexity of global plant-wide process, while to improve the efficiency of local feature extraction. In this method, considering that not all process knowledge is available in the block division process strategy, a novel community discovery (CD) algorithms, based on the similarity of neighbor node weighted Louvain, is introduced into the framework of the multi-block Bayesian inference and principal component analysis (PCA) based plant-wide process monitoring scheme. Firstly, the complex network (CN) theory is used to establish the network topology structure for the global variables of the plant-wide process. Secondly, by analyzing the graph characteristic structure, considering the connection strength between nodes, a more reasonable sub-block division is conducted according to the improved Louvain algorithm. Then, PCA method is used to establish process monitoring model for each sub-block to obtain sub-block monitoring statistics. Finally, the total joint statistics is obtained through Bayesian inference for fault detection. The feasibility and effectiveness, in terms of the detection performance, of this method are demonstrated in a simulated plant-wide process by compared with other state-of-the-art PCA based monitoring methods.