Data driven process monitoring based on neural networks and classification trees
چکیده
Data Driven Process Monitoring Based on Neural Networks and Classification Trees. (August 2004) Yifeng Zhou, B.S., Xian Jiao-Tong University, China; M.S., Research Institute of Petroleum Processing, China Chair of Advisory Committee: Dr. M. Sam Mannan Process monitoring in the chemical and other process industries has been of great practical importance. Early detection of faults is critical in avoiding product quality deterioration, equipment damage, and personal injury. The goal of this dissertation is to develop process monitoring schemes that can be applied to complex process systems. Neural networks have been a popular tool for modeling and pattern classification for monitoring of process systems. However, due to the prohibitive computational cost caused by high dimensionality and frequently changing operating conditions in batch processes, their applications have been difficult. The first part of this work tackles this problem by employing a polynomial-based data preprocessing step that greatly reduces the dimensionality of the neural network process model. The process measurements and manipulated variables go through a polynomial regression step and the polynomial coefficients, which are usually of far lower dimensionality than the original data, are used to build a neural network model to produce residuals for fault