Predictive Maintenance of Cogeneration Engines Through the Analysis of the Circulating Fluids

In this article we present a fluid-based predictive maintenance system based on an expert system which uses fuzzy logic. The programme uses information from the circulating fluids of the machine to provide an evaluation of the maintenance status of the engine. Specifically, the programme is aimed at diesel engines in a half rate cogeneration, and so we will compare our results with other commercial maintenance systems, such as FAMM (Texaco) and ADOC (Repsol), which provide corresponding responses.