Abnormal Process State Detection by Cluster Center Point Monitoringin BWR Nuclear Power Plant

Reference:

Jaakko Talonen and Miki Sirola. Abnormal Process State Detection by Cluster Center Point Monitoringin BWR Nuclear Power Plant. In Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN), volume I, II, July 2009.

Abstract:

This paper proposes a new method to detect abnormal process state. The method is based on cluster center point monitoring in time and is demonstrated in its application to data from Olkiluoto nuclear power plant. Typical statistical features are extracted, mapped to n-dimensional space, and clustered online for every time step. The process signals in the constant time window are classi- fied into two clusters by the K-means method. By monitoring features of the process signals, in addition to signal trends and alarm lists, the operator gains a tool that helps in early detection of the pre-stages of a process fault. By using cluster center point time series monitoring, faults in the process can be seen by at first glance or automatically by notification in the alarm list. This provides a definite advantage to any operating personnel and ultimately improves safety at the nuclear power plant.

Keywords:

nuclear industry, abnormal process state detection, high dimensional data, feature extraction, classification

Suggested BibTeX entry:

@inproceedings{clustertalonen,
    author = {Jaakko Talonen and Miki Sirola},
    booktitle = {Proceedings of the 2009 International Conference on Data Mining (DMIN)},
    month = {July},
    title = {{Abnormal Process State Detection by Cluster Center Point Monitoringin BWR Nuclear Power Plant}},
    volume = {I, II},
    year = {2009},
}

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