A TE Process Fault Diagnosis Method Based on Improved Wavelet Threshold Denoising and Principal Component Analysis

A large amount of noise is mixed in the actual process industrial data, which leads to a decline in data quality, which in turn affects the diagnosis results. In reality, the wavelet threshold method is generally used to remove noise. However, the hard threshold method which is in the wavelet threshold method has the disadvantages of poor signal continuity and signal oscillating. The soft threshold method has the disadvantages of constant deviation and large error of reconstructed signal. To this end, we propose a random soft-hard threshold algorithm which can combine hard and soft thresholds. Then the new algorithm is combined with the principal component analysis for fault diagnosis of the TE (Tennessee Eastman) process. The MATLAB simulation results show that the above method can effectively denoise, identify and detect faults more accurately, and can better find the variables that have the greatest impact on the fault.