Fault monitoring and diagnosis of high-pressure heater system based on improved particle swarm optimization and probabilistic neural network

Abstract

Abstract The high-pressure heater system is an important part of the return heat system of thermal power units, which can significantly reduce the boiler fuel consumption and is of great significance to the safe and economic operation of the units. Taking into consideration the issues that the high-pressure heater system data has strong non-linear characteristics and the fault diagnosis accuracy is low, this paper proposes a hybrid model-based fault monitoring and diagnosis method for a high-pressure heater system. Firstly, an improved particle swarm optimization algorithm (IEDPSO) is proposed. A differential evolution operation is introduced to enhance particle diversity, and the inertia weight coefficients and learning factor parameters are improved to optimize the particle position and velocity update process. The problem that PSO tends to fall into local optimum at the late stage of iterative optimization search is solved. Numerical simulation experiments demonstrate that IDEPSO has high convergence speed and accuracy in the optimization process of the test function. Secondly, a fault monitoring and diagnosis method based on a hybrid kernel principal component analysis (KPCA)-IDEPSO-probabilistic neural network (PNN) model is proposed. Non-linear features are extracted using KPCA for fault monitoring. The IDEPSO algorithm is used to iteratively find the best PNN to improve the fault diagnosis accuracy. Simulation experiments prove that compared with the traditional PNN model, the fault diagnosis accuracy of the KPCA-IDEPSO-PNN model is improved by 4.9% and the number of fault misclassifications is reduced by 34, effectively improving the fault diagnosis accuracy of the high-pressure heater system and ensuring the safe and stable operation of thermal power units.