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High temperature self-powered sensing system for a smart bearing in an aircraft jet engine

High temperature self-powered sensing system for a smart bearing in an aircraft jet engine
High temperature self-powered sensing system for a smart bearing in an aircraft jet engine

Integrated health monitoring is beneficial, but due to reliability, weight, size, wiring, and other constraints, the incorporation of instrumentation onto aircraft propulsion systems is limited. Conventional wired sensing systems are not always feasible due to the size, weight constraints, and issues associated with cable routing. This article presents an integrated and self-powered wireless system for high-temperature (above 125 °C) environments powered by a thermoelectric generator (TEG) for bearing condition monitoring. A TEG with an internal oil-cooling chamber is proposed to achieve higher-energy output for small temperature gradient recorded in the jet engine in comparison with other TEGs with heat sinks. The experimental results demonstrate that, under a simulated engine environment, the TEG can provide sufficient energy for a wireless sensing system to collect environmental data every 46 s and transmit every 260 s during the critical takeoff phase of the flight and part of cruise.

Aerospace, condition health monitoring, self-powered, wireless
6165-6174
Zaghari, Bahareh
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Weddell, Alexander
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Esmaeili, Kamran
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Bashir, Imran
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Harvey, Terence
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Zaghari, Bahareh, Weddell, Alexander, Esmaeili, Kamran, Bashir, Imran, Harvey, Terence, White, Neil, Mirring, Patrick and Wang, Ling (2020) High temperature self-powered sensing system for a smart bearing in an aircraft jet engine. IEEE Transaction On Instrumentation and Measurement, 69 (9), 6165-6174, [8979443]. (doi:10.1109/TIM.2020.2971288).

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Integrated health monitoring is beneficial, but due to reliability, weight, size, wiring, and other constraints, the incorporation of instrumentation onto aircraft propulsion systems is limited. Conventional wired sensing systems are not always feasible due to the size, weight constraints, and issues associated with cable routing. This article presents an integrated and self-powered wireless system for high-temperature (above 125 °C) environments powered by a thermoelectric generator (TEG) for bearing condition monitoring. A TEG with an internal oil-cooling chamber is proposed to achieve higher-energy output for small temperature gradient recorded in the jet engine in comparison with other TEGs with heat sinks. The experimental results demonstrate that, under a simulated engine environment, the TEG can provide sufficient energy for a wireless sensing system to collect environmental data every 46 s and transmit every 260 s during the critical takeoff phase of the flight and part of cruise.

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Accepted/In Press date: 21 January 2020
e-pub ahead of print date: 3 February 2020
Published date: September 2020
Additional Information: This publication is from I2BS project funded by “Clean Sky 2 Joint Undertaking”, “European Union (EU)” and “Horizon 2020”. The name of the action is ‘IA’, the acronym is I2BS and grant number is 717174
Keywords: Aerospace, condition health monitoring, self-powered, wireless
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Local EPrints ID: 437569
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/437569
DOI: doi:10.1109/TIM.2020.2971288
PURE UUID: 2864450c-2dee-48b2-9d9c-f56d7c7f26e6
ORCID for Alexander Weddell: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-6763-5460
ORCID for Neil White: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0003-1532-6452
ORCID for Ling Wang: ORCID iD orcid.org/0000-0002-2894-6784

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Date deposited: 05 Feb 2020 17:34
Last modified: 17 Mar 2024 05:16

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Author: Bahareh Zaghari
Author: Alexander Weddell ORCID iD
Author: Kamran Esmaeili
Author: Imran Bashir
Author: Terence Harvey
Author: Neil White ORCID iD
Author: Patrick Mirring
Author: Ling Wang ORCID iD

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