Vibration Condition Monitoring Systems

Without vibration condition monitoring information on primary equipment such as turbines, pumps and associated equipment, impending faults go unnoticed and develop into conditions that result in failures.

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Vibration Condition Monitoring System

The PROTOR Vibration Condition Monitoring System provides reliable on-line condition monitoring of Turbine Generator, Main Boiler Feed Pumps and other auxiliary plant equipment.

Without the health information that a vibration condition monitoring system can provide on equipment such as turbines, pumps and associated equipment, impending faults go unnoticed and develop into a condition that results in failures. Failures may lead to unscheduled outages or more serious equipment damage with consequent loss of revenues.

PROTOR condition monitoring consists of one or more Remote Measurement Data Acquisition Systems (RMDAS) linked by Ethernet. Typically an RMDAS unit is used for condition monitoring of the vibration and other parameters of an individual main turbine or a number of pumps or fans. PCs or workstations on the network may then use the simple and intuitive PROTOR User Interface to view data and make reports.

Typical condition monitoring applications for PROTOR are:

Power Stations

Steam Turbines
Alternator-Generators
Combined-Cycle Gas Turbine/Compressors
Pumps (Boiler Feed, Feed Water etc.)
Gas Circulators
Auxiliary equipment (Pumps, Fans, Motors)

Heavy Plant

Steel Mills
Paper Mills
Machine vibration condition monitoring


PROTOR vibration condition monitoring supports the following:

Analyse bearing performance
Examination of critical modes
Data comparison at know speeds
More reliable trends
Ability to set up more accurate limits
Examination of blade frequencies
FFT processing of run-up/rundowns
Historical data storage
Better control of machine start-up
Statistical reports on History data

 

With PROTOR, operators and experts are better able to detect problems such as:

Shaft unbalance
Shaft rubs
Shaft bowing
Bearing faults
Misalignment
Shaft cracking
Looseness of rotating elements
Casing Distortion
Whirl problems
Balance piston rubs
Damaged sealing strips
Generator shorts
End winding vibrations
Blade response
Hub cracking
Foundation Distortion