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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Feb. 02, 2016
Filed:
Dec. 31, 2012
General Electric Company, Schenectady, NY (US);
Prashanth D'Souza, Bangalore, IN;
Vivek Venugopal Badami, Schenectady, NY (US);
Rahul Srinivas Prabhu, Bangalore, IN;
Mahalakshmi Shunmugam Balasubramaniam, Bangalore, IN;
Ajay Kumar Behera, Bangalore, IN;
Aninda Bhattacharya, Bangalore, IN;
Venkatesh Rajagopalan, Bangalore, IN;
General Electric Company, Niskayuna, NY (US);
Abstract
A method is presented. The method includes the steps of generating rotation signals corresponding to a plurality of rotations of a rotor physically coupled to a plurality of blades, and determining peak voltages corresponding to the plurality of blades by applying time synchronous averaging technique to blade passing signals using the rotation signals, wherein the peak voltages are representative of clearances of the plurality of blades.