Introduction of dynamics to an approach for batch process monitoring using independent component analysis

Use of independent component analysis (ICA) in developing statistical monitoring charts for batch processes has been reported previously. This article extends the previous work by introducing time lag shifts to include process dynamics in the ICA model. Comparison of the dynamic ICA-based method with other batch process monitoring approaches based on static ICA, static principal component analysis (PCA), and dynamic PCA is made for an industrial batch polymerization reactor and a simulated fed-batch penicillin fermentation process. For both case studies, it was found that the dynamic ICA approach detected faults earlier than other approaches, with less ambiguity, and was the only approach that detected all the faults.