The oil system of a gas turbine performs essential lubrication and thermal management functions, providing that the fluidic and tribological properties of the oil can meet functional requirements. New engine designs place increasing thermal and mechanical loads on the oil, and thus increase the risks of accelerated degradation potentially causing the oil properties to deviate from requirements. Presented with these risks, there is a potential business benefit for in-situ oil condition knowledge to support oil system health management. Starting with the business needs elicited from stakeholders, a Quality Functional Deployment process is performed to derive sensing system requirements. Sensing principles are reviewed for their capability to assess tribological failure mechanisms, and this is related back to stakeholder requirements. A set of sensors were procured and a testing programme performed that exercises the sensors against different degradations of oil and the noise factors representative of service. These sensors are evaluated for their ability to provide oil condition information. The framework presented in this paper uses system engineering principles to derive a health system design and verification process. The results from verification are reported to aid in providing overarching system availability management.


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    Title :

    Oil System Health Management for Aerospace Gas Turbine Engines


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    Publication date :

    2019-03-01


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    1518034 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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