Development of a vibration monitoring system for optimization of the electrical energy production

This article presents the development of a vibration monitoring system based on the method of spectral analysis at a strategic facility such as a feed pump in a thermal power plant and that the aim of optimizing the production of the electrical energy. Indeed, the maintenance policy practiced before at the pumps has demonstrated
its failure after recording several outages this facility resulting in huge production losses during the past 10 years.
This method is limited to the overall vibration measurements at different levels of feed pumps and the irregularly
then comparing these measured with reference values constituting the signatures alert and danger of these pumps.
Thus, this method does not allow to identify possible causes of excessive vibration at different levels of the pumps. For cons, the new maintenance policy to establish the level of these pumps is a vibration monitoring to track the health of the system in operation and thereby detect any problems and trends in order to plan timely corrective actions.