SYSTEMS FOR ACTIVE MONITORING OF ROTOR BEARING STATE IN TURBINE GENERATOR OF MICRO-TURBINE INSTALLATION

The paper is dedicated to the increase of reliability, life, resource and decrease of costs for maintenance of micro-turbine installations at the expense of rotor bearing timely maintenance and decrease of total work time of the installation in the mode of catastrophic wear. In the paper there is described a method for the active monitoring of rotor bearing state of the micro-turbine installation allowing timely notification of the workers in charge about essential turbine generator maintenance. The solution offered is fundamentally new in this field of investigations as it was not used earlier for the control of rotor bearing state of turbine generators. In the paper there are enumerated all components essential for the operation of the system and a method for their connection. A process for adjustment and updating the solution offered is described. As a basic component of the system for data collection there is used Arduino Uno controller. As a main software component is chosen Zabbix 5.0 monitoring system. The objects under investigation are described, and there are presented conclusions on effectiveness and economic purposefulness of the solution offered.