TURBINE FAULT ANALYSIS

• US 20120209539A1
• Filed: 12/08/2011
• Published: 08/16/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 02/10/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Original Assignee: Honeywell International Inc.
• Inventors: Kim, Kyusung
• Application Number:
  US13/314,526
• Publication Number:
  US 20120209539A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/41
• CPC Class Codes: F03D 17/00 Monitoring or testing of wind motors, e.g. diagnostics testing during commissioning of wind motors F03D13/30
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0221 Preprocessing measurements, e.g. data collection rate adjustment; Standardization of measurements; Time series or signal analysis, e.g. frequency analysis or wavelets; Trustworthiness of measurements; Indexes therefor; Measurements using easily measured parameters to estimate parameters difficult to measure; Virtual sensor creation; De-noising; Sensor fusion; Unconventional preprocessing inherently present in specific fault detection methods like PCA-based methods

Abstract

Devices, methods, and systems for turbine fault analysis are described herein. One computing device implemented method for turbine failure analysis includes collecting a first set of data associated with wind turbine performance, via a computing device, analyzing the first set of data to determine whether the first set of data can indicate a fault condition, and reviewing a second set of data associated with wind turbine performance to determine if a fault condition exists.

Claims

1. A computing device implemented method for turbine failure analysis, comprising:

collecting a first set of data associated with wind turbine performance, via a computing device;

analyzing the first set of data to determine whether the first set of data can indicate a fault condition; and

reviewing a second set of data associated with wind turbine performance to determine if a fault condition exists.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further includes providing a notification to a user to take an action based upon the determination that the fault condition exists.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the method further includes determining a type of fault condition that exists from a number of possible fault conditions.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein providing the notification includes information regarding a type of action to take based upon the determined type of fault condition.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein collecting a first set of data associated with wind turbine performance, via a computing device, includes collecting supervisor control and data acquisition type data from at least one of:

a set of wind turbine sensors, a computing device associated with a wind turbine, and a file in memory.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing the first set of data to determine whether the first set of data can indicate the fault condition includes analyzing one or more data items for a wind turbine operating under non-fault conditions.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing the first set of data to determine whether the first set of data can indicate the fault condition includes analyzing one or more data items for a wind turbine operating under non-fault conditions and one or more data items for a wind turbine operating under fault conditions.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing the first set of data to determine whether the first set of data can indicate the fault condition includes analyzing the first set of data using a clustering algorithm methodology.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein analyzing the first set of data using the clustering algorithm methodology includes analyzing the first set of data using a self organizing feature map methodology.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein analyzing the first set of data to determine whether the first set of data can indicate the fault condition includes analyzing the first set of data using a principal component analysis methodology.

11. A computer-readable non-transitory medium storing instructions for turbine fault analysis, executable by a processor of a computing device to cause the computing device to:

collect a first set of data associated with wind turbine performance, via a computing device;

analyze the first set of data to determine whether the first set of data can indicate a fault condition based upon a data value that satisfies a threshold value; and

review a second set of data associated with wind turbine performance to determine if a fault condition exists based on a comparison of the second set of data and the threshold value.

12. The computer-readable non-transitory medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions include instructions executable by the processor to analyze the first set of data to determine a baseline condition with respect to one or more performance characteristics.

13. The computer-readable non-transitory medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions include instructions executable by the computer to determine when the fault condition exists with respect to one or more performance characteristics.

14. The computer-readable non-transitory medium of claim 13, wherein the one or more performance characteristics include at least one of power, torque at a high speed shaft, torque at a low speed shaft, speed at the high speed shaft, speed at the low speed shaft, oil temperature, and oil pressure.

15. The computer-readable non-transitory medium of claim 11, wherein the instructions include instructions executable by the processor to analyze the first set of data to determine whether the first set of data can indicate the fault condition based upon data that satisfies a threshold value with respect to one or more performance characteristics.

16. The computer-readable non-transitory medium of claim 15, wherein the one or more performance characteristics include at least one of power, torque at a high speed shaft, torque at a low speed shaft, speed at the high speed shaft, speed at the low speed shaft, oil temperature, and oil pressure.

17. A computing device for turbine fault analysis, comprising:

a processor; and

memory, wherein the memory stores instructions, executable by the processor to cause the computing device to;

collect a first set of data associated with wind turbine performance;

analyze the first set of data using at least one of a self organizing feature map methodology and a principle component analysis methodology to determine whether the first set of data can indicate a fault condition; and

review a second set of data associated with wind turbine performance to determine if the fault condition exists.

18. The device of claim 17, wherein the analysis of the first set of data using a self organizing feature map methodology is utilized to detect an anomaly in the first set of data.

19. The device of claim 18, wherein the analysis of the first set of data using the principle component analysis methodology is utilized to locate a fault based on the detection of the anomaly.

20. The device of claim 17, wherein the computing device includes instructions to train the computing device to analyze the data using a principle component analysis methodology to determine whether the data can indicate the fault condition, via an auto-associative neural network.