Remote operation and monitoring of a micro aero gas turbine

Abstract

Internet applications have been extended to various aspects of everyday life and offer services of high reliability and security at relatively low cost. This project presents the design of a reliable, safe and secure software system for real time remote operation and monitoring of an aero gas turbine with utilisation of existing internet technology, whilst the gas turbine is installed in a remote test facility This project introduces a capability that allows remote and flexible operation of an aero gas turbine throughout the whole operational envelope, as required by the user at low cost, by exploiting the available Internet technology. Remote operation of the gas turbine can be combined with other remote Internet applications to provide very powerful gas turbine performance simulation experimental platforms and real time performance monitoring tools, whilst keeping the implementation cost at low levels. The gas turbine used in this experiment is an AMT Netherlands Olympus micro gas turbine and a spiral model approach was applied for the software. The whole process was driven by risk mitigation. The outcome is a fully functional software application that enables remote operation of the micro gas turbine whilst constantly monitors the performance of the engine according to basic gas turbine control theory. The application is very flexible, as it runs with no local installation requirements and includes provisions for expansion and collaboration with other online performance simulation and diagnostic tools.

Capabilities supporting digital servitization: A multi-actor perspective

“…In the Intermediate type, the challenge for the manufacturers regarding innovation is to develop capabilities to supplement on-site services with digital services in hybrid offerings (Coreynen et al, 2015;Lerch & Gotsch, 2015). The solutions can be supported by the integration of software and products through sensors and actuators (Diakostefanis et al, 2017). The offer of Intermediate Service should also consider the characteristics of the product, as they can limit the services that could be delivered through it (Grubic & Jennions, 2018).…”

“…As observed by Grubic and Jennions (2018) at Marine Co., customers are not always prepared or interested in providing additional data around a problem or failure and this can impede the delivery of a remote service, since environment data is essential in helping a service engineer resolve a failure. Thus, the customer needs to develop the capability to redesign its internal processes and resources to better benefit from digital and remote services (Diakostefanis et al, 2017). It also requires internal stakeholders being trained and persuaded to use the solutions, and the development of internal capabilities to retain knowledge about the processes (Coreynen et al, 2015;Pagoropoulos et al, 2017).…”

“…Customer-focused through-life service methodologies Improve service delivery as technologies advance (Lim et al, 2015) Data-based diagnostic decisions (Grubic & Jennions, 2017;Lim et al, 2015) Provide customers guarantees for the equipment (Grubic & Jennions, 2017;Huikkola et al, 2020) Development of user-friendly software and applications for interactions and installation (Coreynen et al 2015;Lim et al, 2015;Paluch, 2014) Data privacy (Paluch, 2014) Relationship development with closer contact and trainings (Paluch, 2014) Balance between digital and personal interactions (Paluch, 2014) Customer-focused through-life service methodologies Workforce organization to offer the service constantly (Ong et al, 2007) Fast response and continuous contact with customer to ensure full process efficiency (Paluch, 2014) Processes supporting digital services Redesign internal processes to adapt to remote operation and monitoring (Diakostefanis, 2017) Data interpretation skills (Coreynen et al, 2015) Involvement of stakeholders in remote services selection and use (Paluch, 2014)…”

“…Coordination and integration of third-party products/services Complex solution development through the combination of services from different actors (Coreynen et al, 2015;Eloranta & Turunen, 2016) Integration of IoT solutions with cloud services (Du, 2018;Diakostefanis, 2017) Attract new providers and customers to increase the solution's visibility (relational capital) (Eloranta & Turunen, 2016) Create shared vision among actors (Eloranta & Turunen, 2016);…”