Power Equipment Diagnostic Manual

Author: Lei Ming
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Publish Date: 2001-08-01
Features: This book can serve as a reference tool for management personnel, engineering technicians, and other staff in power operation, manufacturing, installation, and research departments. It can also be used by professionals in industries such as machinery, metallurgy, petroleum, and chemical engineering. The Condition Monitoring Technology (CDT) is a comprehensive technology that emerged in the 1970s and incorporates many new technologies. It enables the assessment of equipment operating conditions during operation or shutdown with minimal disassembly, determining the location, cause, severity, and development trend of equipment faults, predicting equipment reliability and lifespan, and proposing remediation strategies. This book is a systematic and comprehensive manual on power equipment diagnostics in the power industry, serving as a guide and essential reference for implementing condition-based maintenance in the industry. The book is divided into four parts, totaling 39 chapters.
Part 1: Diagnostic Fundamentals
This section introduces the failure modes and mechanisms of power equipment, diagnostic theoretical foundations (including detection sensors, signal processing, condition identification, and prediction technologies), and diagnostic techniques (such as traditional sensory methods, vibration and noise, temperature and thermal imaging, non-destructive testing and acoustic emission, chemical diagnostics, insulation diagnostics, expert systems based on artificial intelligence, neural networks, and fuzzy sets).
Part 2: Generation
This section covers the fault diagnosis of boilers, steam (ice, gas) turbines, rotating machinery, power stations, and nuclear power equipment.
Part 3: Transmission and Distribution
This section discusses the fault diagnosis of transformers, circuit breakers, small four devices (lightning arresters, capacitors, current and voltage transformers), overhead lines, power cables, substations, and power systems.
Part 4: Lifespan Prediction
This section introduces the fundamentals of indirect evaluation (stress analysis method) and direct evaluation (destruction method, non-destructive method) for lifespan prediction of high-temperature components. It also covers the lifespan prediction of high-temperature components in thermal equipment, rotating machinery, transformers, power cables, and nuclear power equipment. The book includes both diagnostic principles, devices, and systems, as well as practical examples, serving as a summary of the latest developments, operational achievements, and experiences in power equipment diagnostics by power operation departments, manufacturers, universities, and research institutions worldwide.