Together with Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) and ENMAX Energy, Turbine Logic published an article called “Advanced combustion-dynamics monitoring detects impending combustor failure, prevents forced outage” to Combined Cycle Journal (CCJ).
Editor’s note is provided here:
This article introduces a novel combustion-dynamics monitoring (CDM) algorithm and a case study to demonstrate its successful detection of a gas-turbine combustor fault which otherwise might have done extensive damage to both the combustor and hot-section components. Failures of this type often develop from small, insipient faults which produce subtle signatures in the dynamics data.
Fault signatures can be detected by advanced monitoring algorithms to identify them before parts fail and force the unit out of service. The CDM algorithm described here blends data analytics and combustion domain expertise with existing combustion monitoring data. It currently is fielded on a fleet of frame units and has successfully caught several faults at sufficiently early stages to plan repairs without a forced outage.
The full article is available in Here.
