On-line Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Sequencing Batch Reactor Using MKICA

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On-line Fault Detection and Diagnosis of Sequencing Batch Reactor Using MKICA Zhang Ya-chao1, Wang Pu2, Gao Xue-jin*3, Ma Rong4 College of Electronic and Control Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China Engineering Research Center of Digital Community, Ministry of Education, Beijing 100124, China Beijing Laboratory for Urban Mass Transit, Beijing 100124, China zhangyachao66@126.com; 2wangpu@bjut.edu.cn; *3gaoxuejin@bjut.edu.cn; 4marong0506@126.com

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Abstract Considering the data of Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR) having the characteristics of non-Gaussian distribution and highly nonlinearity, this research applies Multi-way Kernel Independent Component Analysis (MKICA) to the on-line process monitoring of SBR. Meanwhile, a novel contribution analysis scheme named bar plot is developed for MKICA to diagnose faults. Above all, the three-dimensional data of SBR is expanded into two-dimensional by a new data expanding method; then, Kernel Principal Component Analysis (KPCA) is utilized to map the two-dimensional data into a high dimensional feature space, and make use of Independent Component Analysis (ICA) to extract Independent Components (ICs) in feature space; finally, if MKICA detects a fault occurs during on-line monitoring stage, the bar plot is used to identify the variables causing the fault. The method is successfully applied to an 80L lab-scale SBR. The experimental results demonstrate that, compared with traditional MICA, the proposed method exhibit better performance in fault detection and diagnose. Keywords Sequencing Batch Reactor (SBR); Multi-way Kernel Independent Component Analysis (MKICA); Process Monitoring; Bar Plot

Introduction As a flexible and low-cost process, Sequencing Batch Reactors (SBRs) are commonly used for biological wastewater treatment. The SBR process is normally operated on a series of predefined phases: fill, react, settle, draw, and idle (Marsili-Libelli et al. 2008). Most of the advantages of the SBR process may be attributed to its single-tank designs and the flexibility that enable it to meet many different treatment objectives (Yoo et al. 2006). With increasingly stringent regulations for effluent quality, the on-line monitoring of SBR processes becomes very important for enhancement of process performance by detecting disturbances leading to abnormal process operation at an early stage. In recent years, several techniques using multivariate statistical analysis have been developed for on-line monitoring of the SBR process. However, the SBR process is highly non-linear and non-Gaussian from the nonlinear biological reaction kinetics (Kim et al. 2008). So, there is a big challenge for real-time on-line monitoring of the SBR process. In all multivariate statistical analysis methods, Multi-way Principal Component Analysis (MPCA) is considered as the most famous one, which was evolved from Principal Component Analysis (PCA) in order to monitor batch process by Nomikos et al. (1994, 1995). Kim et al. (2008) and Yoo et al. (2004) pointed out that MPCA has a fundamental shortcoming as it assumes a Gaussian distribution of the variables. So, they applied Multi-way Independent Component Analysis (MICA) to the on-line monitoring of SBR, which show a better fault detection ability than MPCA. What's more, Yoo et al. (2006) thought that the real SBR process is highly nonlinear. In their research, a multi-way kernel principal component analysis (MKPCA) was used to tackle the nonlinear problem and obtain better batch monitoring performance of the pilot-scale SBR. In fact, the SBR data not only has non-Gaussian distribution characteristics but also has highly nonlinear characteristics. Considering that KICA combines the advantages of KPCA and ICA, this article conducts in-depth research on KICA, and applies it to the on-line fault detection of the SBR process. After a fault is detected, fault diagnose is needed. Among the methods based on MSPM, fault diagnosis methods mainly include two types: one is contribution plot method, another is fault reconstruction method. The main idea 94

International Journal of Engineering Practical Research, Vol. 4 No. 1-April 2015 2326-5914/15/01 094-09 Š 2015 DEStech Publications, Inc. doi: 10.12783/ijepr.2015.0401.19


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