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Early identification of rotating machinery faults is crucial to avoid catastrophic failures upon installation. Contact-based vibration acquisition approaches are traditionally used for the purpose of machine health monitoring and end-of-line quality control. In complex working conditions, it can be difficult to perform an accurate accelerometer based vibration test. Acoustic signals (sound pressure and particle velocity) also contain important information about the operating state of mechanical equipment and can be used to detect different faults. A deep learning approach, namely one-dimensional Convolution Neural Networks (1D-CNN) can directly process raw time signals thereby eliminating the human dependance on fault feature extraction. An experimental research study is conducted to test the proposed 1D-CNN methodology on three different electric motor faults. The results from the study indicate that the fault detection performance from the new acoustic-based method is very effective and thus can be a good replacement to the conventional accelerometer-based methods for detection and diagnosis of mechanical faults in electric motors.
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Feature-based statistical process monitoring for pressure swing adsorption processes
Pressure swing adsorption (PSA) is a widely used technology to separate a gas product from impurities in a variety of fields. Due to the complexity of PSA operations, process and instrument faults can occur at different parts and/or steps of the process. Thus, effective process monitoring is critical for ensuring efficient and safe operations of PSA systems. However, multi-bed PSA processes present several major challenges to process monitoring. First, a PSA process is operated in a periodic or cyclic fashion and never reaches a steady state; Second, the duration of different operation cycles is dynamically controlled in response to various disturbances, which results in a wide range of normal operation trajectories. Third, there is limited data for process monitoring, and bed pressure is usually the only measured variable for process monitoring. These key characteristics of the PSA operation make process monitoring, especially early fault detection, significantly more challenging than that for a continuous process operated at a steady state. To address these challenges, we propose a feature-based statistical process monitoring (SPM) framework for PSA processes, namely feature space monitoring (FSM). Through feature engineering and feature selection, we show that FSM can naturally handle the key challenges in PSA process monitoring and achieve early detection of subtle faults from a wide range of normal operating conditions. The performance of FSM is compared to the conventional SPM methods using both simulated and real faults from an industrial PSA process. The results demonstrate FSM’s superior performance in fault detection and fault diagnosis compared to the traditional SPM methods. In particular, the robust monitoring performance from FSM is achieved without any data preprocessing, trajectory alignment or synchronization required by the conventional SPM methods.
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- Award ID(s):
- 1805950
- PAR ID:
- 10447283
- Date Published:
- Journal Name:
- Frontiers in Chemical Engineering
- Volume:
- 4
- ISSN:
- 2673-2718
- Format(s):
- Medium: X
- Sponsoring Org:
- National Science Foundation
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- https://doi.org/10.3389/fceng.2022.1064221
