(615e) Multivariate Statistical Process Monitoring Based On Statistics Pattern Analysis

In this work, a new multivariate method to monitor continuous processes is developed based on the statistics pattern analysis (SPA) framework. The SPA framework was proposed recently [1,2] to address some challenges associated with batch process monitoring, such as unsynchronized batch trajectories and multi-modal distribution. The major difference between the PCA-based and SPA-based fault detection methods is that PCA monitors process variables while SPA monitors the statistics of process variables. In other words, PCA examines the variance-covariance of the process variables to perform fault detection [3-7] while SPA examines the variance-covariance of the process variable statistics ( e.g., mean, variance, auto-correlation, cross-correlation, etc) to perform fault detection.

In this paper, a window-based SPA method is proposed to address the challenges associated with continuous processes such as nonlinear process dynamics. First, the details of the window-based SPA method are presented, then the basic properties of the SPA method for fault detection are discussed and illustrated using a simple nonlinear example. Finally, the potential of the window-based SPA method in monitoring continuous processes is explored using two case studies (a 2 by 2 linear dynamic process and the challenging Tennessee Eastman process [8-10]).

The performance of the window-based SPA method is compared with the benchmark PCA and DPCA methods [5-7]. With additional information other than variance-covariance structure extracted from the process data, the SPA method is able to detect faults that are difficult or cannot be detected by the traditional PCA and DPCA methods. These case studies demonstrate that the SPA method detects various faults more efficiently than the PCA and DPCA methods. In particular, it is able to handle nonlinear process, to detect changes in the system eigenstructure, and to detect subtle changes in various dynamic systems.

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