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Wednesday, December 3, 2008
Monitoring, Performance Monitoring Integrated with Process Control Learn how Xcel Energy is integrating turbine Machinery Health with process control information for operators. Operators tend to make decisions about turbine start-ups, ramp rates, or periodic valve tests, with no consideration of the affects it might have on machinery health. If machinery health is suddenly impacted, and you know it, what actions can be taken? If you have no feedback, the machine either quickly or slowly tears apart until the vibration causes a machine trip. Attendees will learn how Xcel Energy integrated process control, turbine vibration protection, turbine predictive health monitoring and performance monitoring. Seamless integration of machinery health information for operators can help guide the operator to optimize ramp rate, avoid a machine trip during a routine valve check, and see events coming when bearing lube oil temperature changes. Operators follow standard operating procedures to bring turbomachinery online. But what if you did no damage by increasing the ramp rate and bringing the turbine online a few hours earlier? What if a bearing lube oil condition appeared, and you took action, before it became a damaged bearing on startup? What if you could now act on machinery health information from your turbomachinery? Deane Horn
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