Early warning of reciprocating compressor valve fault based on deep learning network and multi-source information fusion

An early warning method of compressor valve fault based on multi-parameter signals (vibration, pressure, and temperature) is presented in this work. Due to the complexity working condition, the run data of the compressor are of problems like noise and feature aliasing, which makes it difficult to extract useful features and find out the running law from the original signals. In this work, an improved deep learning network Multi-Level Fusion long short-term memory based on Component Evaluating Empirical Mode Decomposition and Fuzzy C-Means (CEEMD-FCM & MLF-LSTM) for parameter prediction of reciprocating compressor and an information fusion strategy is proposed for compressor valve fault warning. The CEEMD-FCM & MLF-LSTM network consists of data processing block, information learning block, and prediction output block, which is mainly responsible for parameter prediction. In the data processing block, the CEEMD-FCM algorithm is used for parameter decomposition, noise removal, and fuzzy mode (FM) reconstruction, which generates the input for the information learning block to ensure the predicting accuracy and reduce model complexity. MLF-LSTM is constructed to predict the parameter in the future by learning the temporal and spatial characteristics of FMs of the run data. Then, an early warning strategy for compressor valve fault based on multi-source information fusion is developed. Experimental results have verified that the proposed CEEMD-FCM & MLF-LSTM model and early warning strategy could realize early warning of compressor valve fault effectively.