Power generation

Vibration sensors for monitoring power plant machines

For power plant operators, avoiding outages and providing constant power supply are daily priorities. To keep plants operational, machines must be reliable. Vibrasens vibration monitoring sensors are used by plant maintenance teams to provide advanced warning of component wear on power plant assets. Reliability engineers depend on vibration analysis/diagnostics to establish baseline, trend and early warning/detection of machine faults, plan for machine repairs, and optimize maintenance outages.

Typical power plant applications where vibration monitoring solutions are used include

• Blowers, compressors, cooling towers
• Fans – forced draft and induced draft
• Hydro turbines (low frequency)
• Motors, nuclear machinery, pumps