Condition Monitoring
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The official GTU curriculum for Condition Monitoring (subject code 2180912) as prescribed for Electrical Engineering · Semester 8 divides the course into 6 units, covering 79 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (2180912)Unit 1 Maintenance and Condition Monitoring
- Importance and necessity of maintenance
- different maintenance strategies like Breakdown maintenance
- planned maintenance and condition based maintenance
- Planned and preventive maintenance of transformer
- induction motor and alternators
- Insulation stressing factors
- insulation deterioration
- polarization index
- dielectric absorption ratio
- Insulation ageing mechanisms
- Insulation failure modes
- Definition of terms
- Concept of condition monitoring of electrical equipments
- Overview of Advanced tools and techniques of condition monitoring
- Condition monitoring by thermography
Unit 2 Transformer Diagnostics Technique (Part-1)
- Transformer failure pattern and failure analysis
- Aging of electrical Power infrastructure
- Diagnostic method
- Transformer oil paper insulation system
- Remaining life analysis 4 10 Conventional tests
- Dissolved Gas Analysis
- Gas Evolution in a Transformer
- Key Gas method
- IEEE Method
- Gas Ratio Method
- Fault Detectability using DGA, Combine Criteria for DGA 4 10 Degree of Polymerization and Furan Analysis
- Moisture analysis in Transformer Oil, Time domain Dielectric Response Methods
- Polarization and depolarization current measurements
- Frequency Domain Dielectric Frequency Response (DFR) Method
- Introduction and Basic Philosophy
- Advantages and Disadvantages of DFR measurement in Time and Frequency domain
Unit 3 Transformer Diagnostics Technique (Part-2)
- Partial Discharge measurements
- PD Measuring circuits
- signature analysis
- Indirect electrical measurement
- UHF sensor and HF CT, Measurement of PD under DC, Acoustic Technique
- Overview of Acoustic Technique. 4 10 Detection of Winding Displacements
- Sweep Frequency Response Analysis
- Basic features of SFRA response
- connection methods
- Transfer function features
- FRA Test Types
- Basics of FRA interpretation
- Influence of winding parameters on FRA, Online FRA measurement OLTC and Bushing diagnostics
- Life Assessment and Refurbishment 2 5
Unit 4 Condition Monitoring of Rotating Electrical Machines
- Introduction to motor condition monitoring
- The need for monitoring
- What and when to monitor
- operation and failure modes of electrical machines
- Structure of electrical machines and their types
- Machine specification and failure modes
- Failure sequence and effect on monitoring
- Typical root causes and failure modes
- Root causes
- Failure modes
Unit 5 Temperature monitoring
- Instrumentation requirement for Temperature measurement
- Local temperature measurement
- Hot-spot measurement and thermal images
- Bulk measurement Chemical monitoring Insulation degradation
- Factors that affect detection
- Insulation degradation detection
- Particulate detection: core monitors
- Particulate detection: chemical analysis
- Gas analysis off-line
- Gas analysis on-line
- Lubrication oil and bearing degradation
- Motor Current Signature Analysis Identifying methods of Mechanical Faults with Motor Current Signature Analysis (MCSA)
- faults that can beDetected with MCSA: Air-Gap Eccentricity
- Broken Rotor Bars
- Bearings Damage
- Shorted Turns in Stator Windings, etc
Unit 6 Vibration monitoring
- Instrument required for Vibration measurement
- Condition monitoring of rotating elements
- Bearing response
- Rolling element bearings
- bearing geography
- Bearing Monitoring techniques
- Overall level monitoring
- Frequency spectrum monitoring
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