Larry W Dill

US Patent:

8571830, Oct 29, 2013

Filed:

Jun 28, 2010

Appl. No.:

12/824270

Inventors:

Debasis Bal - Bangalore, IN
Paul August Quail - Ballston Lake NY, US
Sudhanshu Rai - Bangalore, IN
Larry Weldon Dill - Roswell GA, US

Assignee:

General Electric Company - Niskayuna NY

International Classification:

G21C 17/00

US Classification:

702183, 702 34

Abstract:

A system, method and computer program product for predicting collector flashover is disclosed. The method includes receiving a frame of measured data from a data acquisition system, fitting a statistical model to the measured data wherein the measured data includes a plurality of measured variables measured at multiple time instances. The statistical model and the measured data are used for estimating one or more parameters for the frame wherein the one or more parameters include at least one of field circuit impedance and field current noise. A flashover is predicted based, at least in part, upon the one or more estimated parameter for the frame.