VIBGUARD®
Torque Monitoring
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What is torque?
Why torque measurements?
How is torque measured?
Before offering a torque measurement system
Torque measurement set VIB 7.640-SET
Application examples
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When does it make sense?
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What is torque?
Torque, moment or moment of force, is the tendency of a force to rotate an object about
an axis (Wikipedia)
Torque = F x r
In rotating machinery, torque is directly related to the power:
If the load on a machine increases, and we want to maintain a certain operating speed,
the motor must deliver more power, and that is done by increasing the torque
Almost every machine problem will result in a change of the torque reading e.g. bearing
problems, wear, coupling defects, torsional vibration etc.
Torque measurements can be used as a “protection” system to prevent shaft breakage
overload monitoring
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What is torque?
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How is torque measured?
The right telemetry components are needed in order to transfer the torque readings from
the shaft to a monitoring system
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How is torque measured?
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Torque measurement set
VIB 7.640 SET includes: CMS or PLC
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Option 1 CMS or PLC
Option 2
VIB 7.643-1/2 flexible rotor
VIB 7.642 Pre amplifier ring antenna (1 or 2 meter)
Serial cable
(provided potential free
powered 24 V)
Strain gauges & tension
belt, glue etc. is
included in the VIB 7.641 DAQ unit
commissioning service
(SDIC)
VIB SO Power supply
VIB 7.644 receiver antenna VIB 7.646-4 cable for receiver antenna (RG
58 cable)
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Before offering a torque measurement system
Before start check for:
Specify diameter of the shaft. (There is a 1 meter long rotating antenna, for diameters of
max. 315mm and a 2 meter long antenna, for diameters of max. 630mm)
Accessibility to the shaft (best if you get a drawing and pictures of the machine). At lest
10cm are needed.
SDIC needs 1 day of installation for each measurement point.
Shaft and ambient temperature at measurement location. (Should be max. 60°C)
When commissioning the system, customer needs to make sure that a “test run” can be
performed in order to check if the system is running fine.
If you are not sure about something, always ask!
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Types of torque measurements
Static torque measurement
(DC component)
• Like overall values in
vibration analysis
• Compare with rated
nominal torque
Dynamic torque measurement
(AC component)
• Measurement of the
torsional vibration
• A spectrum can also be
calculated
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Torque measurement set
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Vertical Roller Mills (VRM) –
measurement locations & parameters
Typical defects
Drive motor: imbalance, misalignment, wear
SEPARATION
electrical problems, bearing condition
Gear box: gear mesh of pinion and planetary stage; bearing
condition at drive shaft; oil supply
Accelerometer sensors Measurement location examples
FLS ATOX Vertical Roller Mill
Proximity sensors
1-3 = Motor, bearing condition + vibration RMS
MILLING
4-11 = Gearbox, input, bevel gear, planetary
Torque measurements stage
12 = Torque measurement
Additionally: motor current
Parameters for gearbox:
- Spectra, envelope spectra and vibration
1 2 3
8 9 acceleration
- Perform band analysis
10 11
7 Grinding table: Temperature of friction bearing
Oil supply:
12 4 5 - Temperature
6
- Pressure
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Application examples
Measurement points
current 1B
Frequency
current 2B Converter
Motor 1 (B) current 3B
Gearbox current 4B
n1_ref
speed 1
n1_act
Torque 1 voltage
V_eff 1x n1_out
T1_ref supply net
V_eff 1y
V_eff 1z T1_act
T1_out
Output shaft
Torque 3
calculated air gap torque 1
current 1T
Motor 2 (T) current 2T
current 3T
speed 2 current 4T
Torque 2
T2_ref
V_eff 2x T2_act
V_eff 2y T2_out
V_eff 2z
calculated air gap torque 2
Vibration sensors X Y Z axis on the machines
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‘M/V’ SEARCH online CMS [1/3]
Customer: ‘M/V SEARCH’, CGG Veritas
CMS used: VIBRONET® Signalmaster Marine
Machine: Gear box
Application: Torque & RPM measurements,
Process parameter
(e.g. power, pitch)
The ‘M/V Search’ PRÜFTECHNIK specialist commissioning the online CMS
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‘M/V’ SEARCH online CMS [2/3]
Torque measurement setup on the output shaft of the gear box
Online Condition Monitoring System (CMS)
RPM measurement sensor location Torque measurement signal pickup antenna
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