A basic philosophy and guidelines are established for the design and implementation of monitoring systems for cylindrical-rotor, synchronous turbine generators. Monitoring systems are used to display the status of the generator and auxiliary systems while these systems are operating on line. The basic information needed to choose monitoring schemes best suited for each application is provided. This standard does not specify actual equipment or instrumentation, but it does indicate some critical areas where it is important to provide monitoring capability

This document is intended to establish a basic philosophy and guidelines for the design and implementation of monitoring systems for cylindrical rotor, synchronous turbine generators. Monitoring systems are used to display the status of the generator and auxiliary systems while these systems are operating on line. This document does not specify actual equipment or instrumentation, but it does indicate some critical areas where it is important to provide monitoring capability. Generator-protection techniques are not discussed in this document. There is a fine line of distinction between instrumentation that is used for monitoring and instrumentation used for protection, and there are many instruments that play a dual role. The purpose of monitoring is to provide information to the operator to guide appropriate action. This action may be maintenance planning, maintaining load, tripping the unit, or load reduction. The key distinction between monitoring and protection is that with monitor...