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Acoustic Emission Testing

As well as all the other tools available to the condition monitoring engineer; such as Vibration Analysis, Oil Analysis, Thermal Imaging etc. MMS can also provide Acoustic Emission Testing as part of a predictive maintenance program.

As in all machinery failures, when components impact, lubrication fails or friction increases, noise i.e. high frequency acoustics will be emitted. Because of the surrounding high level of noise in industry Acoustic Emission Technology is ideally suited for fault detection.

It has particular benefit when trying to detect faults on very slow speed machinery (0.25 RPM) where vibration signatures may be difficult to measure and thermal imaging is not suitable due to low temperatures.

Acoustic Emission Testing is cheap, easy to use, non intrusive to personnel or production and excellent at plant monitoring of low speed equipment such as:

Rollers
Bearings
Conveyors
Gearbox Outputs

Often used along side vibration analysis, accoustic emmision testing is another simple but effective condition monitoring tool that aids essential predictive maintenance.

Machine Monitoring Systems Ltd
Unit 4, Business Point
PO Box 92
Bicester
Oxfordshire, UK
OX26 5EW

Call. 01869 250 801
Fax. 01869 250 802

News

MMS wins contract at Staythorpe Power Station

MMS is pleased to announce that it has been awarded a contract to setup a comprehensive Condition Monitoring system at the new Staythorpe combined-cycle-gas turbine (CCGT) Power Station.

The station, owned by RWE, will have four generating units, which will be successively commissioned by the end of November 2010.

Once completed, the CCGT will have four generating units capable of producing around 1,650MW of electricity – enough to power around two million homes. It will reduce average annual CO2 emissions by up to 7.5 million tonnes compared to an existing coal-fired power station producing the same amount of electricity.