MONITORING SYSTEM FOR TURBOMACHINERY

• US 20170038275A1
• Filed: 08/28/2015
• Published: 02/09/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/04/2015
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Solar Turbines Incorporated (Caterpillar Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Solar Turbines Incorporated (Caterpillar Incorporated)
• Inventors: Vasamsetty, Ramanath, Cook, Christian Marcus, Schiff, Garrett Linn, Pham, Thompson Hoang An, Murgia, Fabrice Mario, Watkins, Neal, Sadasivan, Vijaya Shankar, Kemp, Frances Julia, Sanjeevi, Anbarasu, Monti, Andrea, De Stefano, Alessio, Scabarozi, John Gregory, Leon, Marco Ezra, Canchi, Venkatesh, Cameron, Paul F., McElhinney, Joseph Stinson IV, Estupinan, Miguel J.
• Application Number:
  US14/839,585
• Publication Number:
  US 20170038275A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: F01D 21/003 Arrangements for testing or measuring for measuring vibrations G01H
• CPC Class Codes: F05D 2260/80 Diagnostics
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 15/02 electric
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 19/0428 Safety, monitoring G05B19/0423 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G05B 23/0235 based on a comparison with predetermined threshold or range, e.g. "classical methods", carried out during normal operation; threshold adaptation or choice; when or how to compare with the threshold
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 3/00 Registering or indicating the condition or the working of machines or other apparatus, other than vehicles

Abstract

A method of monitoring a gas turbine engine is disclosed herein. The method includes periodically receiving sensor data for the gas turbine engine at a monitoring device from a monitoring system server. The method also includes the monitoring device determining whether the tags for each group of a plurality of groups are in the sensor data and correlating the tags with the groups. The method further includes displaying one of the groups on an output display of the monitoring device including the tag name and the sensor value for each tag correlated with the group displayed.

Claims

1. A method of monitoring a turbomachinery system including a plurality of sensors and a controller that collects sensor data from the sensors periodically, the sensor data including tags for the plurality of sensors, each of the tags being for one sensor of the plurality of sensors and includes a tag name, a unique identifier and a sensor value, the method comprising:

periodically receiving the sensor data at a monitoring device from a monitoring system server;

the monitoring device determining whether the tags for each group of a plurality of groups are in the sensor data by determining whether a critical tag for each group of the plurality of groups is in the sensor data and correlating the tags with each group that has the critical tag in the sensor data, the critical tag for each group being unique to that group; and

displaying at least one group of the plurality of groups on an output display of the monitoring device including the tag name and the sensor value for each of the tags correlated with the group displayed.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein determining whether the critical tag of each group of the plurality of groups is in the sensor data includes comparing the unique identifier for each of the tags in the sensor data with the unique identifier for the critical tag of each group.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein displaying at least one group of the plurality of groups on the output display of the monitoring device includes dynamically displaying the at least one group with a second group.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein dynamically displaying the at least one group with the second group includes obtaining a size of the output display, determining a number of the tags in the at least one group and the number of the tags in the second group, and organizing the at least one group and the second group to minimize an amount of white space shown on the output display.

5. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

periodically receiving a second sensor data for a second turbomachinery system at the monitoring device from the monitoring system server;

the monitoring device determining whether the tags for each group of the plurality of groups are in the second sensor data by determining whether the critical tag for each group of the plurality of groups is in the second sensor data and correlating the tags with each group that has the critical tag in the second sensor data; and

displaying at least one group of the plurality of groups on the output display of the monitoring device including the tag name and the sensor value for each of the tags correlated with the group displayed.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying a set of groups on the output display based on a user selected input.

7. The method of claim 6, wherein displaying the set of groups on the output display includes displaying the set of groups in one or more columns, wherein a number of columns used in the display depends on a width of the output display.

8. A method of monitoring a plurality of turbomachines, each including a plurality of sensors and a control system, the sensor data including a tag for each sensor of the plurality of sensors, each tag including a tag name, a unique identifier and a sensor value, the method comprising:

a monitoring device periodically receiving the sensor data for a first turbomachine of the plurality of turbomachines from a monitoring system server located at a data center, the sensor data being provided to the data center from the control system of the first turbomachine by a monitoring connection system located on site with the first turbomachine;

the monitoring device determining which critical tags are in the sensor data for the first turbomachine to organize the tags in the sensor data for the first turbomachine into groups, each of the critical tags being associated with only one group; and

displaying a set of the groups including the tag name and the sensor value for each tag in the set of the groups on an output display of the monitoring device, the tags being from the sensor data for the first turbomachine.

9. The method of claim 8, further comprising:

a second monitoring device periodically receiving the sensor data for a second turbomachine of the plurality of turbomachines from the monitoring system server located at the data center, the sensor data for the second turbomachine being provided to the data center from the control system of the second turbomachine by a second monitoring connection system located on site with the second turbomachine;

the second monitoring device determining which of the critical tags are in the sensor data for the second turbomachine to organize the tags in the sensor data for the second turbomachine into groups; and

displaying a second set of the groups including the tag name and the sensor value for each tag in the second set of the groups on an output display of the second monitoring device, the tags being from the sensor data for the second turbomachine.

10. The method of claim 8, wherein determining which of the critical tags are in the sensor data includes comparing the unique identifier for each of the tags in the sensor data with the unique identifier for each of the critical tags of a plurality of groups.

11. The method of claim 8, wherein displaying the set of the groups on the output display includes dynamically displaying the set of the groups.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein dynamically displaying the set of the groups includes obtaining a size of the output display, determining the size of each group in the set of the groups, and organizing the set of the groups to minimize an amount of white space shown on the output display.

13. The method of claim 8, wherein the sensor data is stored in a fast cache at the data center.

14. The method of claim 8, wherein displaying the set of the groups includes displaying the set of the groups in one or more columns, wherein a number of columns used depends on a width of the output display.

15. The method of claim 8, further comprising displaying all of the tags that are available in the sensor data in a single scrollable list.

16. A system for remotely monitoring a plurality of turbomachinery systems, each turbomachinery system including a plurality of sensors connected thereto and a controller that collects sensor data from the sensors periodically, the sensor data including a tag for each sensor of the plurality of sensors, each tag including a tag name, a unique identifier and a sensor value, the system comprising:

a first monitoring device that periodically receives the sensor data for a first turbomachinery system of the plurality of turbomachinery system from a first monitoring system server of a plurality of monitoring system servers, the first monitoring device including

a first group module that determines which critical tags are available within the sensor data for the first turbomachinery system and correlates the tag for each sensor with groups based on which of the critical tags are available, each of the critical tags being unique to a single group, and

a first display module that displays a first set of the groups including the tag name and the sensor value for each tag in the first set of the groups on a first output display of the first monitoring device; and

a second monitoring device that periodically receives the sensor data for the first turbomachinery system from the first monitoring system server, the second monitoring device including

a second group module that determines which of the critical tags are available within the sensor data for the first turbomachinery system and correlates the tag for each sensor with the groups based on which of the critical tags are available, and

a second display module that displays a second set of the groups including the tag name and the sensor value for each tag in the second set of the groups on a second output display of the second monitoring device.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the first group module compares a unique identifier for each critical tag with the unique identifiers for the tags in the sensor data to determine which critical tags are available in the sensor data.

18. The system of claim 16, wherein the first display module dynamically displays the first set of the groups by obtaining a size of the first output display, determining the size of each group in the first set of the groups, and organizing the first set of the groups to minimize an amount of white space shown on the first output display.

19. The system of claim 16, wherein the first display module displays the first set of the groups in one or more columns, wherein the number of columns used depends on a width of the first output display.

20. The system of claim 16, further comprising:

a third monitoring device that periodically receives the sensor data for a second turbomachinery system from a second monitoring system server of the plurality of monitoring system servers, the second monitoring device including

a third group module that determines which of the critical tags are available within the sensor data of the second turbomachinery system and correlates the tags with groups based on which of the critical tags are available, and

a third display module that displays a third set of the groups including the tag name and the sensor value for each tag in the third set of the groups on a third output display of the monitoring device.