Spirax Sarco, Inc.

Lyubka Spasova

Christopher Michael Roland Agard Poczka

The invention relates to a monitoring apparatus for a steam plant, the apparatus comprising: a sensor unit () associated with a component of the steam plant, the sensor unit () being configured to provide an output indicative of the operating condition of the component; wherein the sensor unit () has a plurality of operating modes, each operating mode having a different resource usage; the apparatus further comprising: a selector () for selecting one of the plurality of operating modes; wherein the operating mode is chosen based on a current operating condition of the steam plant. The invention also relates to a method of operating such an apparatus.

Monitoring apparatus for a steam plant and a method of operating such an apparatus

The invention relates to a monitoring apparatus () for a steam plant, the apparatus comprising: a vibro-acoustic sensor () associated with a component of the steam plant, the sensor () being configured to provide an output indicative of the operating condition of the component; and a condition monitoring unit () coupled to the sensor (); wherein the condition monitoring unit () is configured to analyze the output of the sensor () in order to identify characteristics attributed to live steam and characteristics attributed to condensate and to estimate steam leakage and condensate load for the component based on the identified characteristics. The invention also relates to a corresponding method of monitoring a steam plant.

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Cheltenham, United Kingdom

Lyubka Spasova