Steam turbine anomaly detection: an unsupervised learning approach using enhanced long short-term memory variational autoencoder

•Proposing ELSTMVAE-DAF-GMM for unsupervised anomaly detection in steam turbines.•Designing LSTMVAE to map temporal data into a 3D phase space for feature learning.•Introducing the DAE-LOF to eliminate inherent noise before model training.•Constructing DAF by fusing latent variables with reconstruct...

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Vydané v:	Applied thermal engineering Ročník 278; s. 127138
Hlavní autori:	Xu, Weiming, Zhang, Peng
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	English
Vydavateľské údaje:	Elsevier Ltd 01.11.2025
Predmet:	Deep learning Long short-term memory Steam turbine Unsupervised anomaly detection Variational autoencoder Deep learning Steam turbine Long short-term memory Variational autoencoder Unsupervised anomaly detection
ISSN:	1359-4311
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Shrnutí:	•Proposing ELSTMVAE-DAF-GMM for unsupervised anomaly detection in steam turbines.•Designing LSTMVAE to map temporal data into a 3D phase space for feature learning.•Introducing the DAE-LOF to eliminate inherent noise before model training.•Constructing DAF by fusing latent variables with reconstruction errors.•Using GMM clustering in DAF space for robust anomaly detection. Steam turbines, pivotal to thermal power generation, incur substantial costs and operational disruptions from downtime, maintenance, and damage. Precise anomaly detection is essential for their safe and stable operation. However, challenges such as inherent anomalies, limited temporal modeling, and high-dimensional sensor data often hinder existing approaches. This study proposes an Enhanced Long Short-Term Memory Variational Autoencoder with Deep Advanced Features and Gaussian Mixture Model (ELSTMVAE-DAF-GMM), an unsupervised framework tailored for anomaly detection in unlabeled steam turbine time-series data. Specifically, the model integrates Long Short-Term Memory Variational Autoencoder to map high-dimensional time-series data into a compact latent space. A Deep Autoencoder Local Outlier Factor algorithm filters inherent anomalies during training, sharpening the model’s discriminative power. Additionally, we introduce Deep Advanced Features, which combine latent representations and reconstruction errors to provide a non-overlapping and structured data representation. Anomaly detection of the representation distribution is then estimated using a Gaussian Mixture Model. Comparative and ablation studies on real industrial steam turbine data collected from a thermal power plant in China demonstrate superior performance, with high accuracy (94.6%) and low false alarm rate (5.43%), outperforming baseline methods.
ISSN:	1359-4311
DOI:	10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2025.127138