Aim: process automation and maintenance.

Technologies: Fiber Bragg Grating e Distributed Temperature Sensor

Description: A sensing system to accurately detect excessive wear, functional abnormalities, or the imminent malfunction of machines such as compressors, turbines, pumps and the like play a key role to optimize the machine performance and reduce maintenance costs. Our remote sensors reading unit within a control room in a safe zone and a large number of FBG cascaded in a single fiber link are used to implement a complete machine diagnostic and control system. A complete sensing system can be realized comprising: Multi-point FBG array for temperature distribution monitoring along critical machine sections to detect anomalous hot spots; dynamic and static FBG pressure sensing useful to check for example suction and discharge stage efficiency and FBG accelerometer to provide vibration monitoring of various machine components.