Condition monitoring for improved maintenance in German NPP'S

American Nuclear Society 4th International Topical Meeting on Nuclear Plant Instrumentation, Control and Human Machine Interface Technology

Volumn , Issue , 2004, Pages 801-813

  Wach, Dieter ^a  

^a GESELLSCHAFT FÜR ANLAGEN UND REAKTORSICHERHEIT GRS MBH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Condition monitoring; Diagnostics; Early fault detection; Improved maintenance; Signature data bank

Indexed keywords

CONDITION MONITORING; COOLANTS; FATIGUE OF MATERIALS; FEEDWATER PUMPS; FREQUENCY DOMAIN ANALYSIS; NUCLEAR REACTORS;

REACTOR SAFETY; SIGNAL NOISE ANALYSIS; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS METHOD;

NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS;

EID: 32044467697     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

References (8)

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