This paper proposes a reliable technique for pipeline leak detection using acoustic emission signals. The acoustic emission signal of a pipeline contains leak-related information. However, the noise in the signal often obscures the leak-related information, making traditional acoustic emission features, such as count and peaks, less effective. To obtain leak-related features, first, acoustic images were obtained from the time series acoustic emission signals using continuous wavelet transform. The acoustic images (AE images) were the wavelet scalograms that represent the time–frequency scales of the acoustic emission signal in the form of an image. The acoustic images carried enough information about the leak, as the leak-related information had a high-energy representation in the scalogram compared to the noise. To extract leak-related discriminant features from the acoustic images, they were provided as input into the convolutional autoencoder and convolutional neural network. The convolutional autoencoder extracts global features, while the convolutional neural network extracts local features. The local features represent changes in the energy at a finer level, whereas the global features are the overall characteristics of the acoustic signal in the acoustic image. The global and local features were merged into a single feature vector. To identify the pipeline leak state, the feature vector was fed into a shallow artificial neural network. The proposed method was validated by utilizing a data set obtained from the industrial pipeline testbed. The proposed algorithm yielded a high classification accuracy in detecting leaks under different leak sizes and fluid pressures.

This study proposes a fault diagnosis method (FD) for multistage centrifugal pumps (MCP) using informative ratio principal component analysis (Ir-PCA). To overcome the interference and background noise in the vibration signatures (VS) of the centrifugal pump, the fault diagnosis method selects the fault-specific frequency band (FSFB) in the first step. Statistical features in time, frequency, and wavelet domains were extracted from the fault-specific frequency band. In the second step, all of the extracted features were combined into a single feature vector called a multi-domain feature pool (MDFP). The multi-domain feature pool results in a larger dimension; furthermore, not all of the features are best for representing the centrifugal pump condition and can affect the condition classification accuracy of the classifier. To obtain discriminant features with low dimensions, this paper introduces a novel informative ratio principal component analysis in the third step. The technique first assesses the feature informativeness towards the fault by calculating the informative ratio between the feature within the class scatteredness and between-class distance. To obtain a discriminant set of features with reduced dimensions, principal component analysis was applied to the features with a high informative ratio. The combination of informative ratio-based feature assessment and principal component analysis forms the novel informative ratio principal component analysis. The new set of discriminant features obtained from the novel technique are then provided to the K-nearest neighbor (K-NN) condition classifier for multistage centrifugal pump condition classification. The proposed method outperformed existing state-of-the-art methods in terms of fault classification accuracy.

A novel intelligent centrifugal pump (CP) fault diagnosis method is proposed in this paper. The method is based on the contrast in vibration data obtained from a centrifugal pump (CP) under several operating conditions. The vibration signals data obtained from a CP are non-stationary because of the impulses caused by different faults; thus, traditional time domain and frequency domain analyses such as fast Fourier transform and Walsh transform are not the best option to pre-process the non-stationary signals. First, to visualize the fault-related impulses in vibration data, we computed the kurtogram images of time series vibration sequences. To extract the discriminant features related to faults from the kurtogram images, we used a deep learning tool convolutional encoder (CE) with a supervised contrastive loss. The supervised contrastive loss pulls together samples belonging to the same class, while pushing apart samples belonging to a different class. The convolutional encoder was pretrained on the kurtograms with the supervised contrastive loss to infer the contrasting features belonging to different CP data classes. After pretraining with the supervised contrastive loss, the learned representations of the convolutional encoder were kept as obtained, and a linear classifier was trained above the frozen convolutional encoder, which completed the fault identification. The proposed model was validated with data collected from a real industrial testbed, yielding a high classification accuracy of 99.1% and an error of less than 1%. Furthermore, to prove the proposed model robust, it was validated on CP data with 3.0 and 3.5 bar inlet pressure.