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A transducer that produces a voltage pulse for each turn of the shaft,
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measure rotating shaft speed and serves as a reference for measuring

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vibration phase lag angle.

It is an essential element in measuring rotor slow roll bow or runout

information.The Keyphasor transducer is typically a proximity probe
(recommended for permanent installations in which the probe observes
a physical gap change event), an optical pickup (used for temporary
installations in which the pickup observes a change in reflectivity event)
or a magnetic pickup.

Keyphasor is a Trademark owned by the Bentley Nevada Company. The

system includes a proximity probe, extension cable and proximitor
sensor. Convention recommends that the prime keyphasor event is
located on the driving unit.

The keyphasor measurement required a coupling keyway or an

elongated notch that can provide a once per turn event trigger for the
signal pulse.

Keyphasor

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The keyphasor signal is a once per turn voltage pulse provided by a

transducer, normally an eddy current proximity measurement.

Also Read : Eddy Current Principle

Keyphasor is an electric pulse, or trigger, which is derived from a point

on a rotating shaft, it serves as a zero phase reference for determining
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The keyphasor in turbo machines are necessary to find phase angle of

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unbalance mass at the time of dynamic balancing.

You can monitor the machine health with vibration probes alone but if
you want to analyze the cause of failure of the machine you need three
dimensional graph showing/analyzing the vibrations at any point of time
when machine is running. If you don’t install the keyphasor you will
come to know that there are vibrations in the machine but you will not
point out at what direction, at what point, at what angle.

The Keyphasor signal is used by monitoring, diagnostic, and

management systems to generate filtered vibration. Amplitude, phase
lag, speed and variety of other useful information.

Phase is a critical part of this information. Without phase information

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difficult.
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The Keyphasor is used as a reference point of the shaft, 0 to 360
degrees. When analysis are performed , the viewing of the 1X and 2X
signals are important, X is defined as the running speed of the machine.
The monitors read overall vibration signals at all frequencies, the
Keyphasor is used to determine the speed.

Let’s say a machine is running at 5,000 RPM, with a Key phasor, the
instrument can filter the frequency to 5,000 rpm or 83.33 Hz. With this
signal, one can view the shaft behavior or orbit inside the bearing. The
phase is calculated as from the time the Keyphasor triggers to the first
positive peak of the vibration signal.

Keyphasor in turbomachines are necessary to find phase angle of

unbalance mass at the time of dynamic balancing. Balancing of turbine
rotor is essential.

Manufacturers at their shop can balance the rotors with some other
means even if keyphasor is not present. But when rotor is to be
balanced at user’s site, keyphasor is required for balancing of Turbine
rotor is essential.

Advantages :
The Keyphasor is signal is used to generate more than one third of the
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Shaft crack detection

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Rub Detection
Shaft Balancing
Shaft /Structural resonance detection.

With the installation of the keyphasor, one can find out the direction the
vibrations, at which point the vibrations are there, at which angle the
shaft is vibrating.

Source: GE

Author
R. Jagan Mohan Rao

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