An­a­lyz­ing and Mon­i­tor­ing Shaft Vi­bra­tions

Ac­tive Mon­i­tor­ing of Rotor Dy­nam­ics

Ro­tat­ing ma­chines are mon­i­tored in ac­cor­dance with var­i­ous stan­dards / re­quire­ments (such as DIN ISO 10816, ISO 7919, etc.) The ob­jec­tive of this mon­i­tor­ing is to en­sure the safe op­er­a­tion of equip­ment through the (early) de­tec­tion of dam­age to the ma­chine being mon­i­tored.

Based on and in ad­di­tion to these ma­chine pro­tec­tion pro­ce­dures, a great deal of ef­fort is ex­pend­ed on tech­ni­cal mea­sure­ment for ma­chin­ery di­ag­nos­tics. This be­gins with the place­ment of many sen­sors (shaft- and hous­ing vi­bra­tion sen­sors, ac­cel­er­a­tion sen­sors, sen­sors for the mea­sure­ment of stor­age tem­per­a­tures, ...) and ends with the use of spe­cial sys­tems for the vi­bra­tion-di­ag­nos­tic ex­am­i­na­tion of tur­bine gen­er­a­tors and ro­tors.

Through these pro­ce­dures, de­vi­a­tions from nor­mal op­er­at­ing be­hav­ior and fail­ure of or dam­age to com­po­nents can be de­tect­ed early, and pre­ven­tive main­te­nance mea­sures and gen­er­al main­te­nance are eas­i­er to plan.

The op­er­a­tional avail­abil­i­ty of the ma­chine is in­creased, and the fail­ure of cen­tral and im­por­tant op­er­at­ing com­po­nents can thus be avoid­ed. With the use of the right mea­sur­ing tech­nol­o­gy, com­plete shut­downs and pro­duc­tion loss­es can be avert­ed - es­pe­cial­ly in the en­er­gy- and process in­dus­tries.

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