PERFORMANCE MONITORING AND ANALYSIS FOR POWER PLANTS

• Main Authors: JIANG XIAOMO, HERBERT WILLIAM DARRYL, YOO BENJAMIN, HEDA SANJEEV SHYAM, CHANDRA DIBAKAR, FOSTER CRAIG JOSEPH, WOOD SCOTT ALAN
• Format: Patent
• Language: English
• Published: 18.09.2014
• Subjects: MEASURING; PHYSICS; TESTING; TESTING STATIC OR DYNAMIC BALANCE OF MACHINES ORSTRUCTURES; TESTING STRUCTURES OR APPARATUS NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR

A system for performance monitoring of power plants is provided. The system includes a plurality of power plants respectively owned and operated by a plurality of customers, a monitoring center, at least one of the customers and the monitoring center including a plurality of analytic algorithms configured to automate performance anomaly detection, alarming, analytics and prognosis and a secured network by which on-site monitoring (OSM) data generated at each of the plurality of the power plants is receivable by the monitoring center. The monitoring center is configured to analyze the OSM data along with site specific data for each respective power plant in accordance with the plurality of analytics algorithms to derive trends and to take action with respect to each respective power plant in accordance with changes and abnormalities indicated by the derived trends.