Fault detection on critical instrumentation loops of gas turbines with reflectometry

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 2938-2944

  Neus, Carine ^a   Boets, Patrick ^a,b   Van Biesen, Leo ^a   Moelans, Rudy ^c   Van de Vyvere, Guido ^c  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

^b LUCENT TECHNOLOGIES   (United States)

^c Maintenance Competence Center   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Fault diagnosis; Fault location; Gas turbines; Impedance measurement; Monitoring; Scattering parameters; Time domain reflectometry (TDR)

Indexed keywords

CABLE NETWORKS; DE-EMBEDDING TECHNIQUES; FAULT DIAGNOSIS; FAULT LOCATION; IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; MEASUREMENT DEVICE; REFLECTOGRAMS; REFLECTOMETRY; SAFE OPERATION; SCATTERING MEASUREMENTS; SCHEDULED MAINTENANCE; TIME DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY; TIME-DOMAIN REFLECTOMETRY (TDR);

CABLES; ELECTRIC IMPEDANCE MEASUREMENT; ENGINES; FAILURE ANALYSIS; FAULT DETECTION; MONITORING; REFLECTION; REFLECTOMETERS; SCATTERING; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SENSORS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS; TURBOMACHINERY;

GAS TURBINES;

EID: 69249245303     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2016784     Document Type: Article

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