Batch Process Monitoring Based on Multi-stage Fourth Order Moment Stacked Autoencoder

Fault monitoring can find out-of-control conditions of equipment operation in a timely manner, which is essential for eliminating faults and for stable operation of industrial systems in batch processes. Many conventional data-driven fault detection methods focus less on the non-Gaussian and Multi-stage characteristics of batch process data, which may result in degradation of monitoring performance. In this paper, a Multi-stage Fourth Order Moment Staked Autoencoder (M-FOM-SAE) is designed to solve the above problems. The proposed method firstly automatically determines the number of clusters and divides the batch process into multiple stages. After that, the FOM-SAE model is established in each sub-stage, which can not only effectively learn the nonlinear features of process data, but also extract the non-Gaussian information. The proposed strategy is applied to real-world industrial processes. Experimental results indicate that it can better capture the non-Gaussian and Multi-stage characteristics of process data, and improve the ability to monitor abnormalities.