Open AccessDistributed monitoring system for electric-motor-driven compressors
Author(s) -
K.N. Castleberry
Publication year - 1996
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Reports
DOI - 10.2172/230261
Subject(s) - oak ridge national laboratory , gas compressor , instrumentation (computer programming) , electric motor , navy , engineering , compressor station , automotive engineering , systems engineering , electrical engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , operating system , physics , archaeology , nuclear physics , history
Personnel in the Instrumentation and Controls Division at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory, in association with the United States Enrichment corporation (USEC), the Navy, and various Department of Energy sponsors, have been involved in the development and application of motor-current signature analysis (CSA) for several years. In that time CSA has proven to not only be useful for manually applied periodic monitoring of electrically driven equipment but it has also been demonstrated to be well suited for dedicated monitoring systems in industrial settings. Recent work has resulted in the development and installation of a system that can monitor up to 640 motor and compressor stages for various aerodynamic conditions in the gas compressors and electrical problems in the drive motors. This report describes a demonstration of that technology installed on 80 stages at each of the two USEC uranium enrichment plants