Fault diagnosis of nonlinear processes based on structured adaptive kernel PCA

In this paper a new algorithm for adaptive kernel principal component analysis (AKPCA) is proposed for dynamic process monitoring. The proposed AKPCA algorithm combine two existing algorithms, the recursive weighted PCA (RWPCA) and the moving window kernel PCA algorithms. For fault detection and isolation, a set of structured residuals is generated by using a partial AKPCA models. Each partial AKPCA model is performed on subsets of variables. The structured residuals are utilized in composing an isolation scheme, according to a properly designed incidence matrix. The results for applying this algorithm on the nonlinear time varying processes of the Tennessee Eastman shows its feasibility and advantageous performances.