A SEMINAR PRESENTATION

ON
CONDITION MONITORING OF TURBINE USING IOT

by
G.Venkateswarlu
16125A0312
under the guidance of
Mr.D.Rakesh
Assistant Professor

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

SREE VIDYANIKETHAN ENGINEERING COLLEGE
A.RANGAMPET, TIRUPATI – 517 102
INDIA
2018 – 2019

1
 ABSTRACT
 Condition monitoring is the process of monitoring a parameter in order to identify the
cause of a significant change in the performance of the turbine.
 The main aim of Condition monitoring is to supress the faults at its initial stage before
they lead to major failure.
 The two major failures which are most common in turbines are Misalignment and
Unbalance.
 Data collection, refinement, processing, arriving at diagnostic decisions by Analysing
the data for causes of misalignment and unbalance further diagnostics are processed.
 The faults of the turbine is detected by conducting vibration analysis.
 For this purpose MEMS(Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) is used.
 The time domain signals obtained from the MEMS is transformed to frequency
domain signal using Fast Fourier Transform.

 The magnitude and the frequency at the peaks of the signal decides the severity of
the fault.

 The main advantage of condition monitoring is to increase the cycle time of the
turbine
 INTRODUCTION
• The Electricity produced for the large consumption of the human need is produced
by Steam turbines.

• Construction of the turbine is very complex as it is the integration of large number

of components.

• A small fault in any of these components can leads to failure of the turbine.

• Therefore, the real time monitoring and diagnosis for the steam turbine generator is
very important .

• vibration analysis is the most widely used and the effective method for the fault
detection of turbines.
• The Internet of Things is the arrangement of physical contraptions, vehicles, home
machines.

• Distinctive things embedded with equipment, programming, sensors, actuators, and

accessibility which engages these articles to interface and exchange data.

• We can monitor the condition of the turbine which is at one place from any other
place in the world through internet.
 CAUSES OF FAILURE IN TURBINE

The major cause to the failure of the turbine is due to failure of

• Bearings

• stator
• Rotor
• Rotor blades
• The faults which results in improper functioning of bearings are mainly
Misalignment and Unbalance.

• Misalignment is the most cause of machine vibration.

• Damage of blades causes unbalance of Turbine.
 FAULT DETECTION IN TURBINE
• A transducer is a component which is meant for sensing the physical parameters and
transforms it into an electrical signal as output.

• To know whether the turbine is experiencing the fault we have to study the vibrations
of turbine with the help of MEMS.

• MEMS (Micro Electro Mechanical Systems) sensors can measure very low frequencies
as well as very high frequencies.

• If the turbine is free from fault the vibrations that are generated by the MEMS are of
very low frequencies.

• In case, If the turbine is experiencing any fault the resulting frequencies of the
vibrations generated by the MEMS are very high which form peaks.
 WORKING PRINCIPLE
• The mems which are used for measuring the vibrations are placed on the pedestal
of the turbine.

• The MEMS measure the vibrations.

• The data which is attained from the mems is uploaded to cloud.

• There are some free cloud platforms available on the web one of such clouds is
“ubidots”.

• It means we can monitor the condition of the turbine which is at one place from
any other place in the world through internet.
• The data which is obtained from turbine through mems is downloaded from the
cloud and it loaded in the excel sheet.

• The data which we obtained from the cloud is time domain signals.
• Carry out the Fourier analysis to transform the data from time domain signals to
frequency domain signals.
 Time domain signals from MEMS which are kept on the housing without fault

Frequency domain signals obtained from Fourier transform of housing Without fault
Frequency domain signals obtained from Fourier transform of rotating shaft without fault

Frequency domain signals obtained from Fourier transform of rotating shaft with fault
 ADVANTAGES

• Accessing information easily

• To increase the life time of the turbine
• Down time of the turbine is reduced
• Easy to detect the fault
• Less human effort
• Cost effective
 DISADVANTAGES

• Privacy and security issues

• Complexity
• Lesser jobs
• Dependability
• Required skilled labour
 CONCLUSION

As the vibration signals of the turbine is continuously monitored. If any

disturbance in the turbine cause the change in signals frequency. So we can detect the
fault quickly before it leading to the major failure. By using this technique with the
help of IOT an expert can handle many turbines which are at different places across the
world and monitor them, preventing them from the failure due to the development of
fault.
 REFERENCES
• [1] Changfeng Yan, HaoZhang,Lixiao Wu, Fault Prognosis of Steam Turbine
Generator Set by Trend Analysis of Frequency- 2010 International Conference on
Future Power and Energy Engineering, 2010.

• [2] K N Gupta A tool for machine diagnostics and condition monitoring, Sadhana,
06/1997.

• [3] Alena Bilošová, Jan Biloš Vibration Diagnosis

• [4] Sachin.D.Dere, Laxmikant Dhamande “Rotor bearing system FEA analysis for
misalignment.