Abstract:
A continuous on-line monitor of carbon dioxide dissolved in high purity water includes a cation conductivity cell and associated bridge for measuring first and second cation conductivities at first and second temperature and a heater for heating the sample from the first to the second temperature. A microcomputer calculates first and second concentrations of a fully dissociated acid alone and carbon dioxide alone, respectively, which will produce the first measured cation conductivity at the first temperature and then determines the actual carbon dioxide concentration from the first and second concentrations and the second measured cation conductivity.
Abstract:
Diagnostic apparatus utilized to monitor a steam turbine-generator power plant. A plurality of sensors around the plant provide data to the diagnostic apparatus which utilizes a digital computer to come to some conclusion relative to actual or impending malfunctions in the plant components. The computer utilizes an expert system diagnosis which establishes a plurality of subsystems which are generic and can be applied to any sensor to obtain indications of (a) sensor output movement, (b) validated sensor readings and (c) malfunction indications based on conclusions reached in (a) and (b).
Abstract:
A low pressure steam turbine which is subject to an extremely narrow corrosive salt deposition zone includes rotating and stationary blades. One of the stationary blades has an array of sensors thereon divided up into a plurality of rows, one near the tip of the blade, one near the root of the blade and the third intermediate the two. The sensors are of the type which are flexible so as to conform to the curvature of the blade and will provide an output signal indicative of the presence of a salt solution. The outputs from the sensors are analyzed to provide an indication of the location of the salt solution zone.