Imbalance and misalignment on turbomachinery, particularly turbines in power generations applications, can be costly due to the high cost of down time. These systems are complex in nature and vibration analysis on these systems can be very involved. For this reason, vibration analysis on turbomachinery requires sophisticated data acquisition hardware and advanced software functions involving vibration measurements, rotational phase detection, tachometer measurements, tracking filters, and a wide array of time and frequency domain display features. Data Physics SignalCalc Dynamic Signal Analyzers provide a comprehensive suite of measurements dedicated to this task.
SignalCalc Turbo is a powerful rotor dynamics analyzer used for machinery diagnostics on virtually any machinery. The analyzer has a full suite of capabilities for diagnostics of machines that use journal bearings, such as turbines. In diagnosing turbomachinery, the most fundamental measurements defining shaft motion in fluid filled bearings are derived from pairs of proximity probe displacement transducers placed orthogonally at each bearing location. Orbit plots and bode plots are based on these channel pairs, and are among the vast array of data displays available in SignalCalc Turbo.
Turbo is used by top industry experts and trusted by many more for rotating equipment analysis. Learn more about SignalCalc Turbo.