Distributed monitoring for large-scale processes based on multivariate statistical analysis and Bayesian method

Large-scale plant-wide processes have become more common and monitoring of such processes is imperative. This work focuses on establishing a distributed monitoring scheme incorporating multivariate statistical analysis and Bayesian method for large-scale plant-wide processes. First, the necessity of distributed monitoring is demonstrated by theoretical analysis on the impact of process decomposition on multivariate statistical process monitoring performance. Second, a stochastic optimization algorithm based performance-driven process decomposition method is proposed which aims to achieve the best possible monitoring performance from process decomposition aspect. Based on the obtained sub-blocks, local monitors are established to characterize local process behaviors, and then a Bayesian fault diagnosis system is established to identify the underlying process status of the entire process. The proposed distributed monitoring scheme is applied on a numerical example and the Tennessee Eastman benchmark process. Comparison results to some state-of-the-art methods indicate the efficiency and feasibility. (C) 2016 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.