This study focuses on developing a nonlinear fault identi cation approach whose goal is to nd the fault variables after a fault is detected. For nonlinear processes monitoring, it is a challenging problem to identify the fault variables since the monitoring statistics are usually an implicit function with respect to the process variables. In such a case, a traditional contribution plot-based fault identi cation approach that decomposes the monitoring statistics into the summation of variable contributions will be invalid. To solve the issue mentioned above, in this paper, a new nonlinear processes monitoring technique including fault detection and identi cation approaches is proposed based on kernel independent component analysis (KICA). On the basis of KICA, two monitoring statistics are de ned for fault detection, and the contribution of each variable to the monitoring statistics is de ned for fault variable identi cation. After a fault is detected, one can use the proposed fault variable identi cation method to judge which variable has the largest impact on the abnormal event and demonstrate identi cation. At last, the pulverized coal red boiler process (PCFBP) is taken to evaluate the validity and e ectiveness of the proposed approaches. Experiment results show that the proposed methods have satisfactory monitoring performance in the application to PCFBP.