Generalized Reconstruction-Based Contributions for Output-Relevant Fault Diagnosis With Application to the Tennessee Eastman Process

Multivariate statistical process monitoring technologies, including principal component analysis (PCA) and partial least squares (PLS), have been successfully applied in many industrial processes. However, in practice, many PCA alarms do not lead to quality deterioration due to process control and recycle loops in process flowsheets, which hinders the reliability of PCA-based monitoring methods. Therefore, one is more interested to monitor the variations related to quality data, and detect the faults which affect quality data. Recently, a total projection to latent structures (T-PLS) model has been reported to detect output-relevant faults. In this paper, a generalized reconstruction based contribution (RBC) method with T-PLS model is proposed to diagnose the fault type for output-relevant faults. Furthermore, the geometrical property of generalized RBC is analyzed. A detailed case study on the Tennessee Eastman process is presented to demonstrate the use of the proposed method without or with prior knowledge. © 2006 IEEE.