Optimal maintenance management for synchronous generators: a condition-based approach to predict and assess equipment wear

Currently, effective and early detection of potential failures is of paramount importance in power generation systems, posing a significant challenge for generating companies. This article proposes optimal maintenance policies using a condition-based maintenance (CBM) architecture for a case study based on a synchronous generator. These policies are defined based on the estimated degradation index of the different components of the synchronous generator. The results obtained demonstrate that the proposed model is capable of suggesting an accurate optimal maintenance policy by relating the severity of component damage to the average maintenance cost.