Statistical Health Reasoning of Water-Cooled Power Generator Stator Bars Against Moisture Absorption

IEEE Transactions on Energy Conversion

Volumn 30, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1376-1385

  Youn, Byeng D ^a   Park, Kyung Min ^a   Hu, Chao ^b   Yoon, Joung Taek ^a   Kim, Hee Soo ^c   Jang, Beom Chan ^a   Bae, Yong Chae ^c  

^a Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^b Iowa State University   (United States)

^c Korea Electric Power Research Institute (KEPRI)   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Directional Mahalanobis distance (DMD); health diagnostics; moisture absorption; power generator stator bar; statistical correlation

Indexed keywords

CAPACITANCE MEASUREMENT; ELECTRIC GENERATORS; MOISTURE; STATORS; WATER ABSORPTION;

ENGINEERED SYSTEMS; GENERATOR STATORS; HEALTH CONDITION; MAHALANOBIS DISTANCES; MOISTURE ABSORPTION; PLANT AVAILABILITY; PROGNOSTICS AND HEALTH MANAGEMENTS; REMAINING USEFUL LIVES;

HEALTH;

EID: 84960491676     PISSN: 08858969     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TEC.2015.2444873     Document Type: Article

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