Leak aperture recognition of natural gas pipeline based on variational mode decomposition and mutual information

The acoustic emission (AE) signals generated by natural gas pipeline leaks are affected by various noises, making the accurate extraction of feature signals a challenging task. Therefore, this paper introduces a novel adaptive signal denoising approach utilizing Variational Mode Decomposition (VMD).and mutual information (MI). Firstly, the parameters K and α of VMD are optimized using the energy difference. Simultaneously, the correlation coefficient between adjacent IMF components is used as the evaluation criterion to determine the optimal values of K and α. Then, based on MI, a screening criterion is proposed to select effective IMF components for reconstruction. Finally, the ISSA-SVM model was established by introducing Tent chaotic mapping and inertia weight adjustment strategy on the basis of the traditional sparrow search algorithm (SSA). Experimental results demonstrate that the proposed method effectively eliminates noise from pipeline leak AE signals, with a recognition accuracy reaching up to 96.09%.