Impact Technologies-Marine Systems Electrical Generation

Electrical Generation

Impact's condition monitoring assessment and prediction technologies have been applied to electrical generation system serving the Marine industry. Specific efforts include monitoring premature failure of generator windings and associated regulators and controllers. Impact has developed technologies to serve gas turbine generator demands.

If you are interested in diagnostic/prognostic algorithms that can be plugged into your existing marine CBM systems, investigate engine performance, bearing, and gear applications that will identify the pending failures in your electrical generation plant.

Impact Technologies' Gas Turbine Engine Health Management applications are ideal for monitoring shifts in performance features that has been proven in the US Navy test cells.
Our advance diagnostic applications for monitoring the performance degradation of you gas turbine engines due to salt water fouling have been created for both Allison K501-34 and Rolls Royce MT5 applications.
Our Impact Energy™ diagnostic bearing application is a performance leader for those drive train applications requiring CBM monitoring with a high degree of confidence of an impending failure.
Gear boxes and reduction gear applications can all benefit from the superior diagnostic algorithms provided by Impact’s Gear prognostic application known as GPSys™

Generators

Generators play a key role in a wide range of military and commercial applications. In most applications, increased power generation with reduced size and weight is a continuous design objective that taxes life limiting components such as bearings, windings, diode assembles and rectifiers in already harsh operating environments. Furthermore, generator “health” can be compromised with improper maintenance or other system faults that can overheat the generator. Fortunately, health management, in the form of COTS sensors and diagnostic/prognostic software, can be used to mitigate failure risk and isolate root cause faults before their effects propagate to catastrophic effects such mission aborts, loss of power, or mechanical damage.

Impact has developed intelligent suite of diagnostic/prognostic software modules with the ability to assess generator health through sensed observables such as current, temperature and vibration, apply performance and damage models to identify evolving fault conditions, and predict fault evolution in real-time. In addition to providing a fault diagnosis, Impact’s innovative modeling approach can be used within the framework of military equipment support cost models to reduce the risk of safety or system availability related failures. More accurate time-to-failure predictions can also reduce costly inspection routines and premature component replacements by using a risk-based, maintenance optimization technique (Condition-based Maintenance).

Impact TEchnologies - Generators