A knowledge reasoning Fuzzy-Bayesian network for root cause analysis of abnormal aluminum electrolysis cell condition

Abstract

Root cause analysis (RCA) of abnormal aluminum electrolysis cell condition has long been a challenging industrial issue due to its inherent complexity in analyzing based on multi-source knowledge. In addition, accurate RCA of abnormal aluminum electrolysis cell condition is the precondition of improving current efficiency. RCA of abnormal condition is a complex work of multi-source knowledge fusion, which is difficult to ensure the RCA accuracy of abnormal cell condition because of dwindling and frequent flow of experienced technicians. In view of this, a method based on Fuzzy-Bayesian network to construct multi-source knowledge solidification reasoning model is proposed. The method can effectively fuse and solidify the knowledge, which is used to analyze the cause of abnormal condition by technicians providing a clear and intuitive framework to this complex task, and also achieve the result of root cause automatically. The proposed method was verified under 20 sets of abnormal cell conditions, and implements root cause analysis by finding the abnormal state of root node, which has a maximum posterior probability by Bayesian diagnosis reasoning. The accuracy of the test results is up to 95%, which shows that the knowledge reasoning feasibility for RCA of aluminum electrolysis cell.

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Keywords

abnormal aluminum electrolysis cell condition / Fuzzy-Bayesian network / multi-source knowledge solidification and reasoning / root cause analysis

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Acknowledgements

The paper is supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 61533020 and 61374156). The authors would like to thank Prof. Zou Zhong, Central South University, and the experts of Zhengzhou Faxiang Aluminum Industry Co., LTD for providing data and information of aluminum electrolysis cell.Electronic Supplementary MaterialƒSupplementary material is available in the online version of this article at http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11705-017-1663-x and is accessible for authorized users.

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