Academic literature on the topic 'Condition Monitoring, Power Unit ABPAC, predictive maintenance'

Modern commercial aircraft are usually configured with aircraft condition monitoring system to collect the operating data of subsystems and components, which can be used for airborne system health monitoring and predictive maintenance. This paper presents a baseline model based aircraft auxiliary power unit performance assessment and remaining useful life prediction method using aircraft condition monitoring system reports data, which can facilitate a cost-effective management of auxiliary power units of aircraft fleet. Firstly, the performance baseline model for auxiliary power unit is established using random forest method. Then a health index characterizing the performance degradation of in-service auxiliary power units is obtained based on the performance baseline model. Finally, the performance degradation trend is predicted using Bayesian dynamic linear model. To improve the prediction accuracy, four performance baseline models are established from the data of auxiliary power units under different operating conditions, among which an optimal model is determined. This data-driven baseline model can be used to quantify the performance degradation of auxiliary power units in service, and can be further used to evaluate the remaining useful life of auxiliary power unit using a Bayesian dynamic model. The developed approach is applied on a real data set from 22 auxiliary power units of a commercial aircraft fleet. The results show that the computed health index can effectively characterize the auxiliary power units performance degradation and the remaining useful life relative prediction errors are less than 4% when auxiliary power unit enters the rapid degradation stage. This would allow operators to accurately assess the performance degradation for the auxiliary power units and further proactively plan future maintenance events based on remaining useful life prediction.

As wind energy proliferates in onshore and offshore applications, it has become significantly important to predict wind turbine downtime and maintain operation uptime to ensure maximal yield. Two types of data systems have been widely adopted for monitoring turbine health condition: supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) and condition monitoring system (CMS). Provided that research and development have focused on advancing analytical techniques based on these systems independently, an intelligent model that associates information from both systems is necessary and beneficial. In this paper, a systematic framework is designed to integrate CMS and SCADA data and assess drivetrain degradation over itslifecycle. Information reference and advanced feature extraction techniques are employed to procure heterogeneous health indicators. A pattern recognition algorithm is used to model baseline behavior and measure deviation of current behavior, where a Self-organizing Map (SOM) and minimum quantization error (MQE) method is selected to achieve degradation assessment. Eventually, the computation and ranking of component contribution to the detected degradation offers component-level fault localization. When validated and automated by various applications, the approach is able to incorporate diverse data resources and output actionable information to advise predictive maintenance with precise fault information. Theapproach is validated on a 3 MW offshore turbine, where an incipient fault is detected well before existing system shuts down the unit. A radar chart is used to illustrate the fault localization result.

One of Bosch Rexroth’s newest developments is the ABPAC power unit, which is both modular and configurable. The modular design of the ABPAC is enhanced by a selfcontained Condition Monitoring System (CMS), which can also be used to retrofit existing designs. This dissertation shows how Industry 4.0-Technology provides special advantages for the diverse user profiles. Today, Hydraulic Power Units have either scheduled intervals for preventive maintenance or are repaired in case of component failures. Preventive maintenance concepts, until now, did not fully utilize the entire life expectancy of the components, causing higher maintenance costs and prolonged downtimes. Risk of unscheduled downtime forces the customer to stock an array of spare parts leading to higher inventory costs or in the event a spare is not readily available, the customer may encounter long delivery times and extended downtime. Bearing this in mind, we’ve conceived the idea of a self-contained intelligent Condition Monitoring System including a predictive maintenance concept, which is explained in the following.

The availability and operational efficiency of a steam surface condenser is a critical aspect of, and significant contributor to, a power plants overall thermal performance. In order to ensure reliability and maintain operational efficiency, inspection and testing is often required to determine the condition of the condenser. Inspections tend to support condition based maintenance and usually assist with monitoring the real time condition of the condenser, they are essentially reactive. Regular testing has the advantage that it can be pro-active and provide valuable benchmark data which in turn can be used to monitor a condensers condition throughout its operational design life, and beyond. Testing also provides valuable recordable information which can be utilized in preventive maintenance regimes to minimize condenser deterioration, thereby helping to ensure peak efficiency, and in some instances it can even be used within predictive failure models. Testing often greatly assists with avoiding expensive & unnecessary shutdowns by helping to determine optimal timing for any necessary remedial and/or major repair work, as well as helping to identify and address real time issues.

Hydro-Generator Sets Condition Monitoring and Predictive Maintenance activity has increased dramatically over the past few years. The Fault Diagnostic System is the key technique for the Predictive Maintenance. This paper discusses the Fault Diagnostic System function structure, system design and inferential strategy of Multi-Fault Diagnostic System of the Hydro-Generator Sets. The developing of the power system to big unit requires the higher automation and reliability of the power station. Electrical power systems are constantly exposed to faults and disturbances. This may lead to damage or it may pose a threat to reliable power system operation if a faulty cannot be quickly isolated from the system operation. In accordance with diversity and complexity of Hydro-Generator Sets faults, this paper brings forward a type of fault diagnosis method based on Multi-Diagnosis methods. The Multi-Diagnosis system is constituted of two Sub-Diagnosis systems: one is On-Line Sub-Diagnosis system that based on Bayesian Network (BN) just for the modeling with Bayesian Network has been a powerful tool to solve many uncertainty problems and also with the ability of predicting the future diagnosis; the other is Off-Line Sub-Diagnosis System that based on Model of a hydraulic Turbine-Generator Rotor-Bearing. In order to apply the Bayesian Network model to the engineering fields, we have to solve the problem of constructing the Bayesian Network. Then it suggests a method of constructing Bayesian Network based on the Fault Trees that widely used by the engineers. Base on the construction method, we will construct the Bayesian Network quickly, and Bayesian Network is more suitable for Hydro-Generator Sets fault diagnosis. In accordance with the On-Line Diagnosis Sub-System, it adopts Case-Based Reasoning to make the decision of final diagnosis result or further diagnosis. However, the method mentioned above is limited because of its bottleneck of the knowledge acquisition. The model strategy of the Rotor-Bearing system of Hydro-Generator is discussed and a multi-degree-freedom nonlinear model is developed. It proposes the simulation in accordance with the three fields such as: waterpower, electric and machine. Mechanical, electrical and hydraulic forces acting on rotor externally can be taken into account during the model calculating process. The transient responses of the system are calculated by combined used the transfer matrix method. This paper brings forward a prototype of Hydro-Generator Sets Fault Diagnostic System in order to make a more efficient fault diagnostic decision.