Relationship Prediction Based on Graph Model for Steam Turbine Control Valve

• Main Authors: Yi-Jing Zhang, Li-Sheng Hu
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: MDPI AG 2021-04-01
• Series: Actuators
• Subjects: graph convolution; link prediction; relationship prediction; score function; steam turbine control valve
• Online Access: https://www.mdpi.com/2076-0825/10/5/91

The control valve is an important piece of equipment in the steam turbine, which frequently suffers from the fault of the dead zone. The graph model is a promising method for dead zone detection, yet establishing an accurate and completed graph topology is not an easy task due to limited mechanism knowledge. Hence, a graph model is proposed to predict the links in the graph and estimate the relationship between variables of related equipment of the control valve. The graph convolution is conducted on the uncompleted graph to learn the low-level representations of the graph nodes, and the score function is used to evaluate the probability of the existence of links between a pair of graph nodes. Results demonstrate a test accuracy of 99.2% for the link prediction, and follow the principles of thermodynamics in the steam turbine. Consequently, the proposed graph model is capable of estimating the relationships for the steam turbine control valve, and other inter-connected industrial systems.