• Transactions of the Korean Society of Mechanical Engineers A
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• v.35 no.11
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• pp.1529-1535
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• 2011

Improvement of the thermal efficiency in operation and maintenance of low- and medium-speed engines is a kind of never-ending requirement in the maritime power plant business. For the purpose of improving engine management efficiency, a principal factor that represents the fitness of the engine should be identified. Gas pressure, gas temperature, and vibration have all been used as this factor. However, they have limitations in terms of response speed and diagnosis accuracy. The EFR (engine fitness ratio) is suggested as a new diagnostic factor in this paper. The EFR is defined as the ratio of particular frequencies in the frequency domain and represents the fitness of an engine. It is calculated from the fluctuation pattern of the crankshaft angular speed. The EFR was verified using an experimental method for a low-speed engine and an analytic method for a medium-speed engine.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers Conference
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• 2007.11a
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• pp.178-182
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• 2007

This paper reviews on the LRE health monitoring and emergency protection system to protect test object engine system and engine test facility, in case of various fault occurrence at LRE testing. General composition and major technical consideration of LRE health monitoring system and emergency protection system are reviewed. Moreover, some application of LRE health monitoring/emergency protection system to development test of major LRE component such as turbopump testing, gas generator and combustion chamber test are reviewed.

• Aerospace Engineering and Technology
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• v.11 no.2
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• pp.182-194
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• 2012

To develop a liquid rocket engine with high reliability and safety under constraints of limited time and budget an optimal diagnosis system for the engine needs to be developed in parallel with the development of the engine. This paper is intended to set a development direction of the diagnosis system for the liquid rocket engine through the literature survey and addresses possible engine defects, characteristics of parameters for diagnosis and diagnostic methods including real-time diagnosis, post-test/post-flight diagnosis, fault detection method, parameter circuit method and test diagnosis. In addition tasks to be performed in the design and operation phases of the engine and foreign application case of engine diagnosis are presented.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.17 no.1
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• pp.80-88
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• 2013

In currently developed engine condition monitoring systems, most field engine maintenance engineers have difficulties to use them in fields due to complexity, unpractical use, lack of understanding, etc. Therefore a practical usable engine condition monitoring system must be needed. This work proposes a practical performance condition monitoring of a small turbojet engine through comparing between the on-line performance monitoring data and the initial clean performance data calculated by the base engine performance model. Moreover the proposed monitoring system checks the gas path components' on-line health condition through comparing the component performance characteristics between the running engine represented as a deteriorated engine or a degraded engine and the base engine performance model represented as a clean engine. The proposed condition monitoring system is coded in a friendly GUI type program for easy practical application by a commercial tool, MATLAB/SIMULINK and LabVIEW.

• Proceedings of the Korean Institute of Navigation and Port Research Conference
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• 2022.11a
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• pp.265-267
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• 2022

선박 기관시스템이 효율적이고 안이정적인 운용을 위해서는 실시간 상태 모니터링 기반의 이상탐지, 고장진단 더 나아가 고장예측에 따른 대응조치를 할 수 있는 기술이 필요하며 이를 상태기반 유지관리(Condition Based Maintenance, CBM)이라 지칭한다. 해당 기술을 개발 및 확보하기 위해서는 가장 우선적으로 기관시스템에 대한 다양한 고장 데이터가 확보되어야 하며 이후, 확보된 데이터에 대한 특징추출 등 전처리 알고리즘, 고장 진단 및 예측 알고리즘 등을 개발하여야 한다. 본 연구에서는 선박 추진용 엔진 및 발전기 엔진에 대한 상태기반 유지관리 기술의 개발현황과 향후 지속적인 연구 추진방향을 소개하고자 한다.

• Journal of the Korean Society for Aeronautical & Space Sciences
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• v.37 no.12
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• pp.1238-1244
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• 2009

This work proposes a GUI-type on-line diagnostic program using SIMULINK and Fuzzy-Neuro algorithms for a helicopter turboshaft engine. During development of the diagnostic program, a look-up table type base performance module for reducing computer calculating time and a signal generation module for simulating real time performance data are used. This program is composed of the on-line condition monitoring program to monitor on-line measuring performance condition, the fuzzy inference system to isolate the faults from measuring data and the neural network to quantify the isolated faults. The reliability and capability of the proposed on-line diagnostic program were confirmed through application to the helicopter engine health monitoring.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2010.05a
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• pp.578-579
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• 2010

최근 내연 기관에서 엔진상태 및 잠재적인 결함의 발견을 위해 연료분사, 실린더 내 연소과정, 실린더 내부와 피스톤 마모상태, 흡 배기 밸브 및 과급기 (turbocharger) 등의 상태 모니터링을 통해서 결함에 대한 진단 및 경향관리에 대한 연구들이 진행되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 기 개발된 선박용 대형디젤엔진에 대한 상시 모니터링 시스템을 이용하여 엔진상태 및 잠재적인 결함을 진단하고자 하였으며, 일차적으로 가속도 신호를 이용하여 실린더 내 연소과정에서 정상적인 상태와 착화실패에 따른 진동 양상을 비교 분석하였다. 신호 분석 기법으로 시간-주파수 분산 기법들은 충격파 신호인 엔진 폭발신호를 분석하는데 적합하였으며, 그 기법들 중 Short Time Fourier Transform 기법과 Wavelet Transform 기법을 이용하였다.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.17 no.2
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• pp.71-83
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• 2013

Recently, the advanced condition monitoring methods such as the model-based method and the artificial intelligent method have been applied to maximize the availability as well as to minimize the maintenance cost of the aircraft gas turbines. Among them the non-linear GPA(Gas Path Analysis) method and the GA(Genetic Algorithms) have lots of advantages to diagnose the engines compared to other advanced condition monitoring methods such as the linear GPA, fuzzy logic and neural networks. Therefore this work applies both the non-linear GPA and the GA to diagnose AE3007 turbofan engine for an aircraft, and in case of having sensor noise and bias it is confirmed that the GA is better than the GPA through the comparison of two methods.

• Journal of the Korean Society of Propulsion Engineers
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• v.10 no.3
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• pp.82-89
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• 2006

Recently operation and maintenance cost of gas turbine engines has been issued as a major parameter in terms of designing and manufacturing. Accordingly, the conception that the maintenance and repair of an engine has to be conducted in assembled condition has been spreaded out. However, it is possible only if the prediction of the engine performance is clearly identified. In this study, therefore, a diagnostic code of the engine performance has been developed by using GPA(Gas Path Analysis) and Fuzzy Logic which can analyze the engine performance and estimate the health parameters. The prediction of the quantitative performance deterioration of the established model of the turbo-shaft engine for SUAV has been achieved in a satisfied level compared to that obtained by GSP code.

• Proceedings of the Korean Society for Noise and Vibration Engineering Conference
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• 2012.04a
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• pp.745-745
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• 2012

원자력발전소에서 비상디젤발전기는 노심의 안전성을 지키는 매우 중요한 역할을 담당하고 있다. 이를 위해 디젤발전기는 신뢰성능 높게 유지하도록 규제요건이 마련되어 있다. 디젤발전기의 엔진 상태를 주기적으로 감시하고 평가하기 위해서는 엔진 상태 신호 분석 기술이 필요하다. 엔진 상태 신호 분석에는 연소분석과 진동 및 초음파 측정 및 분석기술이 중요한 비중을 차지한다. 연소 분석은 디젤 엔진의 개별 실린더에 대한 연소 성능에 대한 정보를 제공한다. 진동 및 초음파 분석은 이벤트 타이밍과 기계적 상태에 대한 정보를 알려준다. 이들 신호는 정상적인 부하로 운전하는 디젤엔진의 가동에 영향을 미치지 않고 수집할 수 있다. 엔진 상태 신호 분석을 이용하는 주요 동기는 전통적으로 장비 제작자의 권고에 따라 수행되는 분해-검사 유지 보수 프로그램을 일부 대체하고 예측정비를 통해 신뢰도를 유지하기 위함이다. 상태 진단정비는 엔진 상태 신호분석을 주로 이용하여 엔진의 신뢰도와 이용률을 증가시킬 수 있다. 본 논문에서는 국내외서 경험한 엔진상태신호 측정 및 분석 사례를 기술하였다.