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Abstract

In recent years, the requirements for reliability of machines that perform different technological processes and their faults diagnoses have become much stricter on most plants. The individual component models are used to generate the source or cause of fault in the engines. The failure of these components poses a great problem to the equipment manufacturers and owners. A step to the reduction of the faults led to the execution of this work using gas turbine engines as case studies. Component parametric readings collected from a gas turbine engine on industrial duty for power generation were used to enunciate steps to solve the problem by simulating likely deterioration in its component data. A computer program code in Visual Basic was used to actualize the simulation. The results obtained show that early detection of faults could help to avoid catastrophic downtime. Also the research revealed that the pressure drop across turbine should not exceed 11.4 bar for optimum performance.