China Safety Science Journal ›› 2023, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (S2): 41-48.doi: 10.16265/j.cnki.issn1003-3033.2023.S2.0009

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Research on fault detection method for middle section idler of belt conveyor

JING Qinghe1(), ZHANG Qiliang1, WANG Zengren1, LIU Dongxing1, XIE Miao2, MENG Qingshuang2   

  1. 1 Zhalainuoer Coal Industry Co., Ltd., Manzhouli Inner Mongolia 021400, China
    2 School of Mechanical Engineering, Liaoning Technical University, Fuxin Liaoning 123000, China
  • Received:2023-07-18 Revised:2023-10-12 Online:2023-12-30 Published:2024-06-30

Abstract:

In order to timely and accurately determine the safe operation status of the idlers and reduce their fault operation, the vibration signal characteristics of the idlers under normal working conditions, bearing damage, and fracture in the middle section of a mining belt conveyor were studied based on the actual operating conditions. The vibration signals collected were denoised using DWT and decomposed into the sum of several product function (PF) components through LMD. The components with high correlation coefficients were selected for further analysis, and the extracted best features were used as inputs to the BPNN. A BPNN was constructed to classify the operation status of the idlers, and a diagnostic test of the operation status of the idlers was conducted on a mining belt conveyor. The experimental results show that the DWT-LMD-BPNN algorithm can accurately identify the types of idler faults and locate idler faults, achieving advanced warning of idler faults in the middle section of the belt conveyor. The accuracy of detecting idler faults by integrating the DWT-LMD-BPNN method can reach 93%, which can provide a research basis for building an intelligent monitoring platform for belt conveyors in the future.

Key words: idler fault, vibration signal, discrete wavelet transform (DWT), local mean decomposition (LMD), back propagation neural network (BPNN)

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