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Laurent Busson
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MAINTENANCE ON HYDROGENERATORS
Laurent BUSSON
Lima - November 18th, 2022
Technical expert and speaker
Laurent Busson
• Dipl. Ing. of Ecole Nationale Supérieure d’Electricité et de
Mécanique – Nancy – France
• Started to work at ALSTOM Hydro France in 1997
• Different positions held in ALSTOM / GE : calculation
engineer, project design engineer, head of design office and
engineering
• Independant expert at HYDRHOM since 2020
• Different fields of experience : generators, bearings, shaft
line, vibrations, …
Overview
Source : ABS-USA
Hydro generators failures
In hydro business, some units are rather old, from the 70s down to the 30s !
• Insulation values
• Oil or grease analysis
Historical data are the initial driver for the predictive maintenance program
Step 2 : Audit the machine condition
The on-site audit will be issued by an expert at running conditions and at standstill.
The program will be defined on a case by case basis depending on the characteristics of the unit :
power, speed, voltage, shaft line arrangement, …
Step 1 initial data are also key to organize step 2.
An exchange session with the operation & maintenance staff is a must !
Following the on-site audit, the expert will define some corrective actions, if necessary, to :
• Enhance the operation of the machine and the stability of parameters
• Strengthen the maintenance process
• Align the team with the predictive maintenance objectives
Start the predictive program with a stable operation and good maintenance practices
Step 4 : Analyze the data
The machine can now deliver collected data to be analyzed by the expert at a defined frequency:
• Definition of acceptable variations around the average value.
• Analysis of the data with corrections on the operating factors
• Recommendations for actions, if any