Industrial outcomes

• Hai-Bin Wan of NGT confirms, “Preliminary results have shown that the developed model can capture the basic dynamics of the grid frequency of the National Grid system. It is expected that the model can provide useful operational information when real time data are used, which is essential for control engineers to operate the system economically and securely.”
  
  
• For InterTec (UK), Dave Mellor says, “The research suggests potential for improving on current industrial practice by supplementing conventional threshold alarms and spectral analyses with techniques able to recognise subtle but significant changes in condition without extensive pre-knowledge of the machine. If further work could demonstrate the practicality of locally computable algorithms, this might enable initial assessments to be undertaken at machine level by distributed monitoring systems and reduce the quantity of data that would otherwise have to be routinely collected and transmitted onwards for remote processing.”