Fault Diagnosis of Diesel Engine Using Vibration Signals

Aiming at the characteristics of the surface vibration signals measured from the diesel engine, a novel method combining local wave decomposition (LWD) and lifting wavelet denoising is proposed, and is used for feature extraction and condition evaluation of diesel engine vibration signals. Firstly, the original data is preprocessed using the lifting wavelet transformation to suppress abnormal interference of noise, and avoid the pseudo mode functions from LWD. Obtaining intrinsic mode functions(IMFs) by using LWD, the instantaneous frequency and amplitude can be calculated by Hilbert transform. Hilbert marginal spectrum can exactly provide the energy distribution of the signal with the change of instantaneous frequency. The vibration signals of diesel engine piston-liner wear are analyzed and the results show that the method is feasible and effective in feature extraction and condition evaluation of diesel engine faults.