Product Description
As engineering processes are automated and manpower is reduced, condition monitoring of engineering plants has increased in importance. This is a first edition of this book, written by Taver & Penman was published in 1987. The economics of industry has now changed, as a result of the privatization and deregulation of the energy industry, placing far more emphasis on the importance of the reliable operation of a plant, throughout the whole life-cycle, regardless of first cost. The availability of advanced electronics and software in powerful instrumentation, computers and Digital Signal Processors (DSP) has simplified our ability to instrument and analyze machinery. As a result condition monitoring is now being applied to a wider range of systems, from fault-tolerant drives of a few hundred Watts in the aerospace industry, to machinery of a few hundred Megawatts in major capital plants.In this new book the original authors have been joined by Li Ran an expert in power electronics and control, and Sedding, an expert in the monitoring of electrical insulation systems. The first edition has been revised and expanded merging the authors' own experience with that of machine analysts to bring it up-to-date.
About the Author
Professor Peter Tavner is Professor of New & Renewable Energy and Head of the School of Engineering at Durham University. Dr Li Ran is Lecturer in Power Electronics in the New & Renewable Energy Group, School of Engineering at Durham University. Professor Jim Penman is a private consultant in Condition Based Maintenance and Project Management. Dr Howard Sedding is Principal Engineer in the Transmission and Distribution Technologies Group at Kinectrics Inc, formerly Ontario Hydro Research Division. Dr. Sedding is a winner of the Ayrton Premium of the IEE