Using Condition Monitoring Tools to Improve the Reliability of Various Hydraulic Drive Systems for Cement Plant Applications

This paper describes the installation and operation of various sensors and monitoring techniques and processes to create baseline and trends to evaluate the health of various Hydraulic drive systems used in a Cement plant for applications like Apron Feeder Drives, Kiln Drives, Clinker Cooler Drives, Ball mill Drives, Ball mill inching Drives, HPGR Drives, Feeder breaker Drives, Conveyor Drives, etc.This paper provides details of steps and key sensors to be considered and monitoring the data in preparing the trends and charts to provide real performance v/s baselines for factors like temperatures, viscosity, pressures, leakage flow rates etc. Organize these data and establish guidelines and methods for the plant maintenance team.Using the result helps improve Reliability, productivity, performance, and reduce the downtime for the plant from facing an unscheduled shutdown.