Data Reduction in Proportional Hazards Models Applied to Reliability Prediction of Centrifugal Pumps

This paper presents the use of proportional hazards regression models for predicting the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) of centrifugal pumps in the oil and gas industry. To that end, a dataset collected over 8 years including both design and operational variables from 675 pumps in an oil refinery...

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Main Authors: Marc Vila Forteza, Diego Galar, Uday Kumar, Kai Goebel
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Published: MDPI AG 2025-03-01
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description This paper presents the use of proportional hazards regression models for predicting the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) of centrifugal pumps in the oil and gas industry. To that end, a dataset collected over 8 years including both design and operational variables from 675 pumps in an oil refinery was used to fit statistical models. Parametric and non-parametric transformations and restricted cubic splines were used to fit the covariates, thereby relaxing linearity assumptions and potentiating predictors with strong nonlinear effects on the outcome. Standard Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and sparse robust PCA methods were used for data reduction to simplify the fitted models and minimize overfitting. Models fitted with sparse robust PCA on non-parametrically transformed variables using an additive variance stabilizing (AVAS) method are suggested for further investigation. The complexity of the fitted models was reduced by 85% while at the same time providing for a more robust model as indicated by an improvement of the calibration slope from 0.830 to 0.936 with an essentially stable Akaike information criterion (AIC) (0.34% increase).
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spelling doaj-art-e4d166ca44614b0e96798e2ee72c18182025-08-20T02:11:03ZengMDPI AGMachines2075-17022025-03-0113321510.3390/machines13030215Data Reduction in Proportional Hazards Models Applied to Reliability Prediction of Centrifugal PumpsMarc Vila Forteza0Diego Galar1Uday Kumar2Kai Goebel3Division of Operation and Maintenance Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, SwedenDivision of Operation and Maintenance Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, SwedenDivision of Operation and Maintenance Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, SwedenDivision of Operation and Maintenance Engineering, Luleå University of Technology, 97187 Luleå, SwedenThis paper presents the use of proportional hazards regression models for predicting the Mean Time Between Failures (MTBF) of centrifugal pumps in the oil and gas industry. To that end, a dataset collected over 8 years including both design and operational variables from 675 pumps in an oil refinery was used to fit statistical models. Parametric and non-parametric transformations and restricted cubic splines were used to fit the covariates, thereby relaxing linearity assumptions and potentiating predictors with strong nonlinear effects on the outcome. Standard Principal Component Analysis (PCA) and sparse robust PCA methods were used for data reduction to simplify the fitted models and minimize overfitting. Models fitted with sparse robust PCA on non-parametrically transformed variables using an additive variance stabilizing (AVAS) method are suggested for further investigation. The complexity of the fitted models was reduced by 85% while at the same time providing for a more robust model as indicated by an improvement of the calibration slope from 0.830 to 0.936 with an essentially stable Akaike information criterion (AIC) (0.34% increase).https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1702/13/3/215centrifugal pumpsMTBFAPI standardreliability predictionproportional hazards modeldata reduction
spellingShingle Marc Vila Forteza
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Data Reduction in Proportional Hazards Models Applied to Reliability Prediction of Centrifugal Pumps
Machines
centrifugal pumps
MTBF
API standard
reliability prediction
proportional hazards model
data reduction
title Data Reduction in Proportional Hazards Models Applied to Reliability Prediction of Centrifugal Pumps
title_full Data Reduction in Proportional Hazards Models Applied to Reliability Prediction of Centrifugal Pumps
title_fullStr Data Reduction in Proportional Hazards Models Applied to Reliability Prediction of Centrifugal Pumps
title_full_unstemmed Data Reduction in Proportional Hazards Models Applied to Reliability Prediction of Centrifugal Pumps
title_short Data Reduction in Proportional Hazards Models Applied to Reliability Prediction of Centrifugal Pumps
title_sort data reduction in proportional hazards models applied to reliability prediction of centrifugal pumps
topic centrifugal pumps
MTBF
API standard
reliability prediction
proportional hazards model
data reduction
url https://www.mdpi.com/2075-1702/13/3/215
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