Hydropower Operators Adopt Digital Twins To Prevent Failures
Hydropower operators face costly outages from bearing failures and are using root cause analysis and digital twins to diagnose and prevent them. The article explains bearing types, common failure causes—misalignment, lubrication issues, overloads—and details a Cataract, Maine, case where foundation distortion and design limits led to repeated thrust-bearing failures resolved by a PTFE retrofit. Integrated sensor and oil data in digital twins enable unified analysis and predictive maintenance.
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