Fault Detection and Isolation of a cement rotary kiln using fuzzy clustering algorithm

In this paper, Fault Detection and Isolation (FDI) is studied for the rotary kiln of Saveh White Cement Company. To do so, K-means algorithm as a crisp clustering, Fuzzy C-Means (FCM), and Gustafson-Kessel (GK) algorithms as fuzzy clustering are used. In those, for finding number of clusters, Cluster Validity Indices (CVI) are applied. Principal Component Analysis (PCA) mapped the clusters into two dimensional spaces. Fault detection and isolation performance are evaluated by three criteria namely sensitivity, specificity, and confusion matrix. The results reveal that GK fuzzy algorithm provides better performance on detection and isolation of fault in this industrial plant.