Train Performance - Evaluation and Monitoring by Torque Meter Applications and Process Gas Compressor / Steam Turbine Train Fouling and Washing Mitigation
Abstract
The systematic monitoring and evaluation of
turbomachinery is an important diagnostic tool in the execution
of a long-term maintenance plan as well as the prevention of
unexpected outages due to machinery breakdown. This paper
introduces the typical causes of performance deterioration in
compressors and steam turbines and the phenomena related to
their causes.
In addition, this paper also introduces how to evaluate
performance, based on site monitoring techniques are explained
by combining typical evaluation results with torque
measurement and maximum power limit control. Evaluation of
these results can determine if deterioration in performance,
caused by a change in the internal flow conditions, has
occurred.
Finally, typical results from on-line washing techniques for
compressors and steam turbines will be introduced and the
power recovery rate after on-line washing, measured by the
torque meter, will be discussed.
Description
LectureSubject
TurbomachinesCollections
Citation
Kiuchi, Daisuke; Fujimura, Norihito; Hata, Satoshi; Horiba, Junichi (2013). Train Performance - Evaluation and Monitoring by Torque Meter Applications
and
Process Gas Compressor / Steam Turbine Train Fouling and Washing Mitigation. Turbomachinery Laboratory, Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /172617.