Condition Monitoring System for Hydro Turbines Based on LabVIEW

Author

Liu, Zhong ; Zou, Shuyun ; Zhou, Lihua

Author_Institution

Key Lab. for Power Technol. of Renewable Energy Sources, Changsha Univ. of Sci. & Technol., Changsha, China

fYear

2012

fDate

27-29 March 2012

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

The operating conditions of hydro turbines´ have a significant influence on the safety and economic benefit for hydropower plants. In this paper, a condition monitoring system for hydro turbines based on LabVIEW is proposed. Typical measurands for hydro turbines´ condition monitoring and their respective sensors are studied and determined. The configuration and function modules of the proposed system are established and implemented. The results of the application to a Francis turbine have shown that this system helps to obtain the hydraulic turbine´s state and is promising to be a technical reference for the field engineers.

Keywords

condition monitoring; electric sensing devices; electrical safety; hydroelectric power stations; power engineering computing; power generation economics; virtual instrumentation; Francis turbine; LabVIEW; condition monitoring system; configuration modules; economic benefit; field engineers; function modules; hydraulic turbine state; hydropower plants; hydroturbines; operating conditions; safety benefit; sensors; technical reference; typical measurands; Condition monitoring; Fault diagnosis; Hydraulic turbines; Monitoring; Sensors; Vibrations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Power and Energy Engineering Conference (APPEEC), 2012 Asia-Pacific

Conference_Location

Shanghai

ISSN

2157-4839

Print_ISBN

978-1-4577-0545-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/APPEEC.2012.6306997

Filename

6306997