Paper Info
Title
Monitoring gearbox using a wireless temperature node powered by thermal energy harvesting module
Abstract
Condition monitoring (CM) of gearbox is a crucial activity due to its importance in power transmission for many industrial applications. Monitoring temperature is an effective mean to collect useful information about the healthy conditions of the gearbox. This study investigates the use of a novel wireless temperature node to monitor and diagnose different faults on a gearbox transmission system under different conditions. The wireless temperature node was fabricated with a novel feature that it is supplied by a thermoelectric generator module mounted on the gearbox house to be monitored so that the measurement system avoids the shortage of using a wired power sources or the requirement for recharging or changing batteries. Moreover, the temperatures from lubricating oils and housing are modelled empirically to implement a model based detection. The results show that this monitoring approach allows a number of common faults: tooth breakage, oil shortage, and shaft misalignment to be separated under different loads, which demonstrates the outstanding performance of the proposed system and thus suitable for online and automated condition monitoring.
Year
DOI
Venue
2017
10.23919/IConAC.2017.8081994
2017 23rd International Conference on Automation and Computing (ICAC)
Keywords
Field
DocType
gearbox,condition monitoring,temperature,fault diagnosis
Thermal energy,Wireless,System of measurement,Thermoelectric generator,Transmission system,Condition monitoring,Engineering,Power transmission,Electrical engineering,Wireless sensor network
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-5090-5040-6
0
0.34
References 
Authors
1
6
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Badradin Elforjani100.34
Yuandong Xu202.37
Khaldoon F. Brethee301.01
Zhifei Wu400.34
Fengshou Gu52323.43
Andrew Ball67217.29