Vibration monitoring of turbines

[madhav]

Have anybody used NI platform for online monitoring of Turbines (TSI) and if yes, upto what rating (MW).

[preston_johnson]

The National Instruments Tools have been used in a number of turbine applications from 30kW to over 100MW. I do not have specific models of the turbines, yet here is a listing. Several of these are listed in one of the power point slides I posted on the FTP site.

Siemens Westinghouse - Dynamic Combustion Chamber Pressure Monitoring
GE Power - Turbine Test Cells in North Carolina
CFE - Mexican Power Authority - Several plants with their LabVIEW and DAQ solution for diagnostic monitoring of turbine power plants
Brookhaven National Labs - monitoring a Siemens Co-Generation site
Alstom Power - Diagnostic and commissioning tools for power plant and turbine commissioning
TurboCare - Houston Texas - NI tools used for balancing turbomachinery
Texas
A&M University Turbomachinery Lab - Rotordynamics Research with NI Tools
Universirty of Virginia - ROMAC labs - Rotordynamics Resaerch with NI Tools
Arizona Public Service, Palisades Nucluear and Duke Energy - Pump monitoring for Nuclear power plants
GE Aerospace, Rolls Royce, Pratt and Whitney - jet engine test cells using NI tools.

I would be happy to review the requirements of anyone's application.

Sincerely

Preston Johnson
512-683-5444
preston.johnson@ni.com