Batch Process Monitoring and Fault Diagnosis Based on Multi-Time-Scale Dynamic PCA Models

Yuan Yao and Furong Gao
Dept. of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, Clear water bay, Kowloon, Hong Kong SAR, P. R. China


Abstract

Dynamics are inherent characteristics of batch processes, which can be divided into short time-scale dynamics within a batch duration and long time-scale dynamics across several batches. The interactions between process variables make different types of dynamics confounded. Under such situations, it is difficult to perform efficient fault diagnosis. In this paper, a batch process monitoring scheme is proposed to separate different types of process variations for modeling and perform monitoring and fault diagnosis with multi-time-scale dynamic principal component analysis (PCA) models. Simulation results show that the fault diagnosis efficiency is enhanced.