CONDITION MONITORING

STATE OF THE ART IN

NUCLEAR & NO NUCLEAR
INDUSTRY

Arturo Patiño
I&C Manager
Zorita (José Cabrera) NPP
Spain
 INDEX
1. Predictive Maintenance & Supervision Stages
2. Condition Monitoring / Condition Based Maintenance
3. Computer Maintenance Management System
(CMMS)
4. Software techniques
5. Applications connectivity
6. Applications
1. NPP REACTOR COOLANT PUMP
2. GAS TURBINE
SUPERVISION STAGES

FAILURE DETECTION

DIAGNOSTICS

RECONFIGURATION

CONTROL PROCESS

“Inteligencia artificial para la detección y el diagnóstico de fallos”

Joaquín Melémdez / Joan Colomer (Universitat de Girona)
CONDITION MONITORING SYSTEM (CMS)
CONDITION BASED MAINTENANCE (CBM)
CONDITION MONITORING SYSTEM
Impressions
(human senses) Vibration monitors
Maintenance
I&C channels
operators
Chemical Electrical
analysis consumption
Others Thermograph

CONDITION BASED MAINTENANCE

Cumulated
Experience
DECISIONS
MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT
 COMPUTER MAINTENANCE
MANAGEMENT SYSTEM (CMMS)
CONDITION MONITORING

- Store data
- Data management CMMS
- Experience database - Trends
- “Analysis”
- Alerts

Cumulated
Experience
DECISIONS
MAINTENANCE MANAGEMENT
 SOFTWARE TECHNIQUES
Data Acquisition, Store & Management
- Filtering
- Statistics
- Transforms (FFT, SFT…)
Signals Generation
- Threshold
- Trend evolution
Data Analysis - ...
TECHNIQUES
- Neural networks
INTEGRATION
- Fuzzy logic
- Signed Direct Graph
- Causal analysis
- Case Based Reasoning (CBR)
- Record APPLICATIONS
- Reload
- Reuse CONNECTIVITY
- Revision
- ...
 TECHNIQUES INTEGRATION FOR
FAILURE DETECTION & DIAGNOSTICS
DB management
Supervisory Numeric
Physical Process Information
System Processing

ON LINE: Data Bases Abstraction Tools

- Data Acquisition System Data Bases
(Instrumentation, Numeric Qualitative Modelling
Measures, Controllers) Numeric
variables Qualitative
variables Facilities
variables variables
OFF LINE: Models Knowledge
- Modelling (process Models Representation
- Continuous representation, relations,...) Knowledge facilities
- Experience (expertise, Knowledge
Bases
Bases Knowledge
- Discrete rules, ...)
Processing
- Learning
(event driven) - History
facilities
Alarm Uncertainty
Alarm
generation treatment
- Hybrid generation
Fault Monitoring
Fault
detection
detection Alarm Generation
Diagnosis and management
Diagnosis
Actions Reconfiguration
Reconfiguration Decision support

User Interfaces

...

“Inteligencia artificial para la detección y el diagnóstico de fallos”

Joaquín Melémdez / Joan Colomer (Universitat de Girona)
APPLICATIONS
CONNECTIVITY

* RM&D: Remote Monitoring & Diagnostic

 EXAMPLE 1.
NPP Reactor Coolant Pump
Controlled Bleed-off Flow
Controlled Bleed-off Pressure
Controlled Bleed-of Temperature
Seal Cooler 1 Inlet Pressure
Seal Cooler 1 Inlet Temperature
Seal Cooler 2 Inlet Pressure
Seal Cooler 2 Inlet Temperature
RCP Discharge Pressure
HP Cooler Inlet Temperature
HP Cooler Outlet Temperature
RCP Upper Thrust Bearing
Temperature
EXAMPLE 2.
Gas Turbine
 END

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