Blower health monitoring system could mitigate outages 08 July 2013

Many forced and induced draft blowers that are essential for fired heater or boiler operations are not sufficiently instrumented to perform online health monitoring – meaning they monitored only periodically.

So says Emerson Process Measurement, pointing to their vulnerability to unexpected failures, which can trip a furnace or boiler – and to its new blower monitoring solution.

Pete Sharpe, director of industry solutions development at Emerson explains that this is a pre-engineered application that works with wireless or wired instruments to increase blower availability, reduce process upsets and production outages, and cut maintenance costs.

"Blower issues can increase energy costs, reduce throughput and potentially cause reportable safety and/or environment incidents," comments Sharpe.

"Failure is driven by many culprits, which can often be detected early," he continues.

"The most common causes of trips include normal wear-and-tear that causes vibration, lubrication issues, motor alignment, bearing faults, bent blades, and duct or screen blockages."

Brian Tinham

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