Early fault detection — an overview

• Book ID: 104316486
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 518 KB
• Volume: 2002
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0262-1762
• DOI: 10.1016/s0262-1762(02)80157-2

✦ Synopsis

Pumps are a crucial part of many industrial plants, guaranteeing the flow of the process. Their choice and performance can therefore have a considerable impact on the overall costs and performance of the plant. Early detection of faults in pumps can increase their reliability, reduce energy consumption, service and maintenance costs, and increase their life-cycle and safety, thus providing a significant reduction in life-time costs. In this article, which continues this issue's special focus on Germany, Dieter-Heinz Hellmann explains how the use of easily measured parameters in combination with suitable mathematical algorithms can provide early diagnosis of faults.