TORSO Protect
Detecting and addressing harmful torsional vibrations in shaft lines.
TORSO’s automatic detection and protection functionality eliminates your worries about excessive torsional vibrations in today’s situation of constantly changing grid circumstances.
TORSO Detect simply plugs into your existing system and monitors the torsional vibrations using the available array of sensors. It is an affordable early-warning system that enables you to take measures if needed.
Description
Among the potentially harmful conditions for turbo groups, torsional vibration is one that is generally overlooked although it can lead to dramatic failures. The issue requires special attention in today’s new normal of constantly changing grid circumstances and interactions with wind farms and power electronics.
Protecting your shaft line
TORSO Protect is a high-end automatic protection system. It involves existing or newly installed speed sensors at well-chosen locations of the shaft line along with precise signal conditioning to ensure redundancy and robustness.
No harmful situation goes unnoticed
TORSO Protect continuously monitors the frequency and peak amplitude of critical resonance frequency bands. Thresholds are defined for critical vibrations. Whenever a threshold is reached, TORSO Protect sends an appropriate alarm or trip signal to your DCS or SCADA system, protecting your shaft line from severe damage. No harmful situation goes unnoticed while avoiding false alarms.
Analysis and diagnosis
Through its customizable interface, measurement data are presented for analysis, diagnosis, and identification of remedial action by power plant staff or ENGIE Laborelec experts.
