A Review of Information Fusion Methods for Gas Turbine Diagnostics

Valentina Zaccaria, Moksadur Rahman, Ioanna Aslanidou and Konstantinos Kyprianidis
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Valentina Zaccaria: School of Business, Society and Engineering, Mälardalen University, 721 23 Vasteras, Sweden
Moksadur Rahman: School of Business, Society and Engineering, Mälardalen University, 721 23 Vasteras, Sweden
Ioanna Aslanidou: School of Business, Society and Engineering, Mälardalen University, 721 23 Vasteras, Sweden
Konstantinos Kyprianidis: School of Business, Society and Engineering, Mälardalen University, 721 23 Vasteras, Sweden

Sustainability, 2019, vol. 11, issue 22, 1-20

Abstract: The correct and early detection of incipient faults or severe degradation phenomena in gas turbine systems is essential for safe and cost-effective operations. A multitude of monitoring and diagnostic systems were developed and tested in the last few decades. The current computational capability of modern digital systems was exploited for both accurate physics-based methods and artificial intelligence or machine learning methods. However, progress is rather limited and none of the methods explored so far seem to be superior to others. One solution to enhance diagnostic systems exploiting the advantages of various techniques is to fuse the information coming from different tools, for example, through statistical methods. Information fusion techniques such as Bayesian networks, fuzzy logic, or probabilistic neural networks can be used to implement a decision support system. This paper presents a comprehensive review of information and decision fusion methods applied to gas turbine diagnostics and the use of probabilistic reasoning to enhance diagnostic accuracy. The different solutions presented in the literature are compared, and major challenges for practical implementation on an industrial gas turbine are discussed. Detecting and isolating faults in a system is a complex problem with many uncertainties, including the integrity of available information. The capability of different information fusion techniques to deal with uncertainty are also compared and discussed. Based on the lessons learned, new perspectives for diagnostics and a decision support system are proposed.

Keywords: data fusion; diagnostics; gas turbine (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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