Cracks and welds detection approach in solar receiver tubes employing electromagnetic acoustic transducers
2018
There is a significant rising in development of new concentrated solar plants due to global energy demands. Concentrated solar plant requires to improve the operational and maintainability in this industry. This article presents a new approach to identify defects in the solar receiver tubes and welds employing a simple electromagnetic acoustic transducer. The absorber tubes in normal working conditions must withstand high temperatures, which can cause the tubes to deteriorate in areas such as welding, or it can cause hot spots due to defects or corrosion. A proper predictive maintenance program for the absorber pipes is required to detect defects in the tubes at an early stage, reducing corrective maintenance costs and increasing the reliability, availability, and safety of the concentrated solar plant. This article presents a novel approach based on signal processing and pattern recognition for predictive maintenance employing electromagnetic acoustic transducers. Hilbert transform is used to obtain the ...
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- Corrective maintenance
- Engineering
- Predictive maintenance
- Fault detection and isolation
- Structural health monitoring
- Electromagnetic acoustic transducer
- Transducer
- Condition monitoring
- Welding
- Electronic engineering
- Wavelet transform
- global energy
- Structural engineering
- Maintainability
- solar plant
- Mechanical engineering
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