This paper addresses the problem of fault detection and isolation in railway track circuits. A track circuit can be considered as a large-scale system composed of a series of trimming capacitors located between a transmitter and a receiver. A defective capacitor affects not only its own inspection data (short circuit current) but also the measurements related to all capacitors located downstrea...

This paper presents a method based on neural networks to detect broken rotor bars and end rings in squirrel cage induction motors. In the first part, detection methods are reviewed and traditional methods of fault detection as well as dynamic&#10model of induction motors are introduced using the winding function method. In this method, all stator and rotor bars are considered independently in o...

Recent studies, and a large body of anecdotal evidence, suggest that upgrades are unreliable and often end in failure, causing downtime and data-loss. While this is sometimes due to software defects in the new version, most upgradefailures are the result of faults in the upgrade procedure, such as broken dependencies. In this paper, we present data on upgrade failures from three independent sou...

Experimental and modelling investigations of supercritical CO2 extraction oil from Argania spinosa L. kernels were conducted at pressure range 200 to 400 bar, temperature 313–333 K a flow rate 0.14 kg/h. Regardless the temperature, highest achievable yield was estimated 0.63 kgoil / kgbiomass. The kinetics modeled with Sovová’s broken intact cells model. type B found be most suited type. Argan ...

Quality control is applied in production process. The good condition of electrical machines can be obtained by using diagnostics. There are a lot of methods that can be used for diagnostics of electrical machines. In the literature, standard methods are based on a study of electrical signals. This project work start with a novel automated practical implementation for non contiguous rotor side b...

Rotor asymmetries in induction machines perturb many components such as, flux patterns and electromagnetic torque. The supervision of these signals enables early detection of such faults and help to machine diagnostic. This paper studies the detection of rotor imperfection by spectral analysis of the electromagnetic torque computed by two rotor flux estimators. In the first approach, the Kalman...