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The fossil fuel
power generation industry has unique needs and requirements when
it comes to monitoring critical components within the plant and
generating equipment. Conditions in power plants make vibration-based
spectral component analysis difficult to impossible. But, these
conditions make them a perfect application for stress wave monitoring.
SWANtech, working in cooperation with our power generating customers, has developed
a monitoring system that provides real-time, continuous equipment
condition monitoring of all plant equipment. Because our patented
stress wave energy monitoring technology allows us to identify
the ACTUAL condition of operating equipment, and to "see" mechanical
degradation in its earliest stages, SWANtech can provide our
power generating customers with the most advanced warning of
any other technology. Customers have ample time to schedule routine
maintenance, rather than getting a surprise and loosing a key
mechanical component (and the respective generation capacity)
at an unsafe or inopportune moment.
 Because stress wave measurements are directly effected by equipment loading and operational conditions, real-time monitoring of stress wave energy levels (SWE) provides operational staff and maintenance staff with a means of identifying conditions that create excessive (or minimal) stress wave energy levels.
A power plant stress wave monitoring system can begin with the
installation of SWANguard monitoring units in the main generating
units, with SWANtech sensors, on the main and thrust bearings
and even the gearbox. Unlike traditional vibration monitoring
systems, there are no special mounting requirements or a need
for multi-axis orientation of multiple sensors.
SWANtech doesn't
measure vibration and make guesses about how this relates to
equipment health...we directly measure friction and wear levels,
irrespective of the normal vibrational frequencies of the particular
machinery.
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various SWANguard units mounted on the plant equipment send their
real-time data back to a site central server where it is stored,
archived, analyzed and made available for display. SWANguard
units can be connected via private, serial, multi-dropped communication
wiring, or can co-reside on any available ETHERNET LAN. Wireless
spread-spectrum radio modems can also be used to eliminate the
need for any such wiring. The data from each device/sensor is
monitored for absolute levels, for changes and acceleration,
and compared against statistical data from other, similar machinery.
SWANview and SWANweb display and analysis packages can be used
to provide visualization of the resulting data, with audible
and visual annunciation of problem areas. If Internet access
is available at the site, the same data can be forwarded to a
corporate server that acts as a central collection point for
all sites and provides a corporate web-based portal for rapid
identification of generating conditions, alerts and warnings. Want
more information? .
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Click here to request information
or phone (in North America): 954.449.2696, Fax: 954.449.2695
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| SWANmarine™ |
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| SWANmill™ |
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| SWANpowergen™ |
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| SWANview™ Software |
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| SWANguard™ Condition
Monitoring |
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| SWANserver™ Data
Plant |
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| SWANtech™ Sensors |
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| SWANtech™ Scalable
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| SWANwind™ |
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