INTEGRATION AND OPTIMIZATION OF VARIOUS CONDITIONS MONITORING METHOD

Condition Monitoring technique acts as revolutionary mechanism because of effective, quick, reliable and cost effective application to uphold, maximize, optimize uninterrupted operation of high end equipment's, in particular and all operating equipment's, in general specially in power plant. Various methods are been adopted in this technique in which vibration analysis, wear debris analysis, thermography etc., are most common, widely recognized and in practice for carrying out condition monitoring program. These methods acts as preventive and proactive approach in identifying wear in machines and diagnose fault occurred in the machinery. Generally these condition monitoring techniques are isolated, carried out independently by respective departments, analyzed separately without establishing correlation between these techniques, leading to generation of separate reports for each technique. This leads to only a part of turbine faults typically get diagnosed. Therefore integration of these techniques can provide greater, deeper, and more reliable quick information leading to effective diagnosis of turbine in more accurate way. This paper deals with integrations and optimization of all various condition monitoring techniques that can be carried out simultaneously on turbine leading to early detection of problem and proper diagnosis to be carried out resulting in minimizing operating cost, avoid unplanned breakdown, and to maintain uninterrupted operation of turbine.