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- the present invention relates generally to a method for identifying and quantifying global environmental data and the application of that data for determining engine health and identifying engine maintenance requirements.
- the present invention relates to application methods for quantifying and linking the full global environmental airborne particulate to improve the understanding and prediction of the environmental impact on air breathing engines (e.g. aviation engines).
- Aviation engines typically do not include air filters and therefore airborne environmental aerosols and particulate can have significant multiple negative effects on aviation engines.
- the varied usage and diverse global operation of aviation engines can result in a wide range in engine hardware life, time in flight and maintenance costs.
- the present invention provides an environmental data and processing method and system for understanding and predicting engine health status and maintenance by identifying and quantifying global environmental aerosols and particulate that impact aviation engines and identifying the different issues they can cause to allow for targeted maintenance and hardware designs.
- an engine health management system and method for determining health of an engine of an aircraft that includes a data source interface which transmits data from internal and external data sources, a control module that includes a processor and a memory and receives data via the data source interface, creates evaluation methods for evaluating the data received to determine suitable data and storing the suitable data within the memory, and creates a controlled historical airport information repository to process historical data via the processor and generate airport information reports based on the historical data.
- the system also includes a central computing system communicatively coupled with the control module and the data source interface, which performs data enhancement techniques including linking environmental counts and accumulations with engine data.
- a method of determining environmental data including particulate data and an effect of global environment on an engine of an aircraft includes retrieving, at a control module via a data source interface, data from internal engine data sources and external data sources related to public health and environmental data, creating and performing, at the control module, evaluation methods for evaluating the data received to determine suitable data and storing the suitable data within the memory, creating, at the control module, a controlled historical airport information repository and processing historical data via a processor of the control module, and generating airport information reports based on the historical data; and performing data enhancement operations, via a central computing system communicatively coupled with the control module and including linking environmental counts and accumulations with engine data.
- Another embodiment of the present invention includes various methods for enhancing and sub dividing the environmental data using counting and accumulation methods.
- the invention can more precisely capture engine health and engine maintenance needs.
- This environmental data can also be counted and accumulated over extended time periods, over various operating locations and/or over the entire flight envelope.
- the breadth of airborne environmental data includes unique environmental particulate values at various, multiple distinct elevations above the ground to accommodate the entire flight envelope.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an engine health management system that can be implemented within embodiments of the present invention.
- FIG. 2 is a data and process flow illustrating a method of determining various types of environmental data including weather and particulate data and their effect on aviation engines, that can be implemented within one or more alternative embodiments of the present invention.
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating multiple environmental data sub-dividing and various particulate and associated distress classification operations included in the process flow shown in FIG. 2 , that can be implemented or linked within one or more alternative embodiments of the present invention.
- FIG. 4 is a detailed process flow illustrating further specific operations performed by the controller module of the engine health management system, and the types of data to be linked and stored in the database of the engine health management system of FIG. 1 and FIG. 2 , that can be implemented within one or more embodiments of the present invention.
- the embodiments of the present invention a system and method for detecting and quantifying global environmental aerosols and particulate that impact aviation and other air breathing engines and identifying the different issues they produce to allow for predictive engine health, targeted engine inspections, planned engine maintenance and updated hardware design.
- the method includes daily tracking and quantification of the various environmental aerosols and weather data, which when combined with engine data, can be used to predict the current health, remaining life and overhaul scheduling of the aviation engines.
- the present invention will be described with respect to an aviation engine, however the present invention is not limited hereto and can be applied to non-aviation applications whereby environmental factors such as dust ice, ice crystals, aerosols, volcanic ash, sand, silt, water vapor, pollution, smoke, sulfur, calcium, silica, sea salt, potassium, VOCs, deicing fluid, rain, snow, hail, wind speed, wind direction and temperature and other environmental parameters can have an adverse effect on the operation of an engine or device.
- environmental factors such as dust ice, ice crystals, aerosols, volcanic ash, sand, silt, water vapor, pollution, smoke, sulfur, calcium, silica, sea salt, potassium, VOCs, deicing fluid, rain, snow, hail, wind speed, wind direction and temperature and other environmental parameters can have an adverse effect on the operation of an engine or device.
- an engine health management system 100 as shown in FIG. 1 , is coupled to a plurality of communication links to transfer data to and from an aircraft engine.
- the communication links can be wired or wireless communication and may be capable of linking with other systems and devices and may include, for example, packet radio, satellite uplink and/or downlink, wireless fidelity (Wifi), WiMax, Bluetooth, ZigBee, 3G wireless signal, code division multiple access (CDMA) wireless signal, global system for mobile communication (GSM), 4G wireless signal, long term evolution (LTE) signal, ethernet, or any combination thereof.
- the communication links may also include one or more radios including voice, ACARS-analog, ACARS-digital, SATCOM, cellular, etc.
- the communication links may allow for communication with maintenance personnel via a maintenance vehicle, ground controllers, or directly to a data operation center.
- the system 100 includes a data source interface 105 , a control module 110 , a plurality of refresh controls 130 , a central computing system 140 , and a user interface 150 .
- the detailed operation of the system 100 will now be described with reference to FIGS. 1 and 2 .
- the data source interface 105 identifies, collects and verifies various public, private and internal data sources including for example, remote sensing satellites, and ground-based weather stations. Also included are multiple public airport weather data sources, aircraft and engine reports, local health monitoring stations and multiple airport GPS information sources, public and fee-based airport data (as depicted in FIG. 4 ) and customer information. The data source interface 105 collect the various data sources, evaluates initial data quality and determines data source completeness.
- the control module 110 can include at least one processor 112 and at least one memory 114 .
- the control module 110 receives data from the data source interface 105 .
- the processor 112 of the control module 110 develops custom evaluation methods for review of the data received from the data sources to determine the most suitable data combination and linking methods according to embodiments of the present invention. Therefore the most complete, linked and evaluated data is stored within the memory 114 for use within the system and methods of the present invention. For example, any new records are compared to existing records to determine unusual variation, discontinuity or outliers using customized statistical and process control techniques.
- the control module 110 further creates a controlled historical airport information repository to process, classify and link previous data via the processor 112 which has been received and stored in memory 114 and generates airport information reports based on the information within the repository.
- the control module 110 further includes software instructions for performing data quality control processes and data parsing techniques, and outlier evaluation/removal and unit conversions and software instructions to flatten satellite array files and enable linkage to standard data schemes to be stored within memory 114 .
- the data obtained via the data source interface 105 and the control module 110 are linked together at the central computing system 140 .
- the central computing system 140 includes a processor 142 , a memory 144 and a database 146 .
- the processor 142 at the central computing system 140 performs data enhancement techniques which includes methods for connecting various environmental data, including counts and accumulations data enhancement methodologies.
- the counting operation utilizes an incremental increase (count) for each and every time the engine encounters an environment condition over the predefined threshold level.
- the accumulation operation captures the difference between the threshold level and the actual environmental level (delta) and adds that amount to the prior accumulation values.
- the counts and accumulations processes are aggregated and updated at key intervals such as every arrival and departure airport and at every 1° latitude and every 1° longitude.
- Both the count and accumulation methods can process and evaluate up to 100 different thresholds from 1-100% to determine the optimum threshold related to the distress, maintenance or TOW being evaluated. Similar processing methods exist for rolling averages, standard deviations, trending slopes for selecting the best method to provide the most clarity for the engine analytic application.
- the software instructions for performing the data enhancement techniques are stored in the memory 144 . As indicated by the arrows therebetween the data retrieved via the data source interface 105 and the control module 110 , along with all environmental and engine post-processed data are stored in the database 146 .
- the memory 144 can be a non-volatile memory, non-transitory memory, random access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), flash memory, or one or more different types of memory of the database 146 also includes the various environmental information and accessible by the control module 110 or the processor 112 thereof.
- the particulate information can include parameters related to, for example, different types of environmental aerosols or particulate, compositions, ratios, concentrations, averages and/or their relationship to other data parameters as detailed in FIGS. 3 and 4 .
- the different types of environmental aerosols or particulates can include for example, dust, ice/ice crystals, aerosols, volcanic ash, sand, silt, water vapor, pollution, smoke, sulfur, calcium, silica, sea salt, potassium, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), deicing fluid, rain, snow and hail.
- the different types of environmental aerosols or particulates can vary based on wind speed, wind direction or temperature or a combination thereof.
- the central computing system 140 can be remotely located for example, within a data operations center.
- the central computing system 140 is communicatively coupled with the refresh controls 130 and the user interface 150 .
- the refresh controls 130 provides hourly, daily, monthly and yearly updates of the data retrieved from the data source interface 105 and updates the data to be stored in memory 144 at the central computing system 140 .
- evaluations are performed on past environmental trends to predict future environmental and weather issues to thereby improve inspection intervals and prevent unplanned engine removal. Further, detailed insight into various hardware and engine issues from daily levels of different environmental data provides targeted maintenance actions (e.g., water wash or on-wing maintenance of an aircraft) based on the known engine and hardware configuration also in the data to be stored in memory 144 at the central computing system 140 . Based on the methods performed at the control module 110 and the central computing system 140 , monthly variations, seasonal trends and yearly averages of the effect of the environmental issues can also be provided to a user at interface 150 .
- maintenance actions e.g., water wash or on-wing maintenance of an aircraft
- methods and computer program products may also be provided, on any machine-readable media for accomplishing operations of thereof. They can be implemented on existing processors or special purpose processors.
- Embodiments of the present invention can include a computer program product comprising machine readable media for carrying or having machine executable instructions or data structures stored thereon.
- the machine-readable media may be any available media which may be accessed by a general purpose or special purpose computer or other machine with a processor.
- Embodiments may be practiced in a network environment such as a local area network (LAN) and a wide area network (WAN) or other type of network.
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- FIG. 2 a method 200 of determining environmental and weather data and the effect on the aviation engines using the engine health management system 100 shown in FIG. 1 is provided.
- the method 200 starts at operation 210 where data is transmitted from internal engine data sources, external purchased data sources, and external public data sources into the engine health management system 100 via the data source interface 105 (as depicted in FIG. 1 ). The method 200 then moves to operation 220 .
- the data parsing techniques, review and cross-checking methods, data standardization and quality control processes; and Data enhancement techniques including counts and accumulations data enhancement operations are performed at the control module 110 and the central computing system 140 , respectively. Additionally, at operation 220 , the data parsing is performed by selecting the applicable airborne environmental and particulate data for the various types and quantities as discussed below with reference to FIG. 3 .
- the different environmental types can be any of the above-mentioned aerosols or particulates or weather factors.
- the total airborne particulate 300 is divided into at least two groups based on the different sizes and types of particulate.
- the particulate size can depend upon global location and can vary continuously.
- the particulate is of a first size (size 1 ) and at 320 , the particulate is of a second size (size 2 ) which is greater than that of the first size (size 1 ).
- the first size (size 1 ) is of a fine particulate less than approximately 1 micron ( ⁇ m) while the second size (size 2 ) is of a coarse particulate greater than approximately 1-2 microns ( ⁇ m).
- the present invention is not limited hereto, and may vary as necessary.
- the particulate is then further divided into at least two different classification types, type 1 A which causes an oxidation type of hardware distress and a type 1 B which causes a corrosion type of hardware distress.
- type 1 A particulate can further be broken down into a sub-species 1 A 1 that can cause an intergranular grain attack hardware distress.
- the particulate of size 2 is then split into at least two types, type 2 C and type 2 D.
- Type 2 C is known to deposit on internal cooling surfaces thereby reducing cooling effectiveness and increasing metal temperatures and distress.
- Type 2 D is known to infiltrate cooling circuits and plug or restrict small cooling holes thereby increasing metal temperatures and distress.
- the type 2 C can further be broken down into a spallation type sub-species, species 2 C 1 that can infiltrate thermal barrier coatings causing coating spallation and degradation and higher metal temperatures. Any of these types can be potentially correlated as the root cause or the most likely environmental factor for engine hardware distress.
- the cross-checking of data performed at the control module 110 allows for selection of the most accurate and useful data (as depicted in FIG. 1 via user interface 150 ).
- several methods are available for tracking historical airport code changes, selecting the most accurate airport latitude and longitude information and airport usage information, from the data sources. Based on this information, internal customized methods are performed to adapt to new data or data provided in a different format or data available in a newer version.
- data received from the public health data sources can undergo quality evaluation and a review and approval process via the control module 110 .
- the satellite data retrieved can also undergo quality evaluation and parsing methods to flatten satellite array data to a more user friendly format and allow linking to other data of this invention.
- the data may undergo a cleaning process with specific software instructions as performed by the processor 112 (as depicted in FIG. 1 ). The processed and cleansed data is then used to create or update the overall environmental database.
- Several additional databases can be created and linked including a purchased flight tracking database, an airport information database, reports related to the global environment, engine full flight database and engine snapshot database from the internal engine data sources.
- operation 230 includes performing operations to correctly link the various data sources described above at the central computing system 140 .
- the process continues to operation 240 where daily updates are performed in real-time or near-real time via the refresh controls 130 as depicted in FIG. 1 .
- All of the data obtained is then stored in the database 146 at the central computing system 140 (at operation 250 ).
- the database 146 (as depicted in FIG. 1 ) can include engine flight data tables and environmental data tables and other associated weather data.
- data is then analyzed and outputted in the form of monthly variations, seasonal trends, yearly averages at the user interface 150 .
- improvements and modifications are made using the customer variation, hardware analytics, and maintenance actions.
- environmental impact during all flight phases including taxi, takeoff, climb and cruise descent can be determined and linked with all previous data.
- the method further includes, at operations 260 , 270 , and 280 , creation of multiple environmental trigger thresholds.
- These trigger thresholds are determined from data sets calculations using coded techniques, to identify counting methods using events at above and below each calculated trigger threshold. Additional factors for the trigger thresholds include the determination of environmental accumulation methods using environmental values above and below each trigger threshold. These counts and accumulations are performed on all the various aerosol species that may impact engine hardware distress in order to track and predict inspections, maintenance and removals. The multiple aerosol sub-species types are review simultaneously to identify the most likely root cause drivers and facilitate necessary redesign and maintenance or inspection actions.
- Software instructions to perform the above-identified methods and operations can be stored in the database 146 and the memory 114 of the control module 110 (as depicted in FIG. 1 ).
- the processor 112 is configured to retrieve the software instructions and perform the above-identified methods.
- the processor 112 can also perform additional methods and operations suitable for the purposes set forth herein.
- the engine health management system 100 (of FIG. 1 ) further links all of the databases together. This linking can be facilitated by creating the common flight tables and data assembly tables in the database (e.g., database 146 ).
- the health management system 100 can also update airport information reports using linking methods based on latitude, longitude, elevation and date/time information. For example, each and every flight record from an individual engine can be linked with all the various environmental and weather data over the entire history to be readily available for users via the user interface 150
- Embodiments of the present invention provides the advantages of determining and quantifying multiple aerosol types for understanding specific root cause drivers, obtaining daily updates providing real-time and near real-time engine/hardware tracking, and yearly/seasonal trending allowing service contract forecasting.
- the embodiments also provide for tracking of extreme weather events for determining immediate maintenance needs/faults, providing airport information creating direct linkage to arrival/departure. Additional features provided by the embodiments include the use of the environmental values at various elevations within the atmosphere to provide linkage over full flight path(s) of aircrafts.
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- The present invention relates generally to a method for identifying and quantifying global environmental data and the application of that data for determining engine health and identifying engine maintenance requirements. In particular, the present invention relates to application methods for quantifying and linking the full global environmental airborne particulate to improve the understanding and prediction of the environmental impact on air breathing engines (e.g. aviation engines).
- Aviation engines typically do not include air filters and therefore airborne environmental aerosols and particulate can have significant multiple negative effects on aviation engines. The varied usage and diverse global operation of aviation engines can result in a wide range in engine hardware life, time in flight and maintenance costs.
- It is desirable to have an environmental data and particulate data collection and processing system to efficiently collect, classify, verify and relay data in real-time, near real time, and on-demand, as desired for understanding and predicting the health of the aviation engines.
- The present invention provides an environmental data and processing method and system for understanding and predicting engine health status and maintenance by identifying and quantifying global environmental aerosols and particulate that impact aviation engines and identifying the different issues they can cause to allow for targeted maintenance and hardware designs.
- According to one or more embodiments, an engine health management system and method for determining health of an engine of an aircraft, that includes a data source interface which transmits data from internal and external data sources, a control module that includes a processor and a memory and receives data via the data source interface, creates evaluation methods for evaluating the data received to determine suitable data and storing the suitable data within the memory, and creates a controlled historical airport information repository to process historical data via the processor and generate airport information reports based on the historical data. The system also includes a central computing system communicatively coupled with the control module and the data source interface, which performs data enhancement techniques including linking environmental counts and accumulations with engine data.
- In another embodiment of the present invention, a method of determining environmental data including particulate data and an effect of global environment on an engine of an aircraft is provided. The method includes retrieving, at a control module via a data source interface, data from internal engine data sources and external data sources related to public health and environmental data, creating and performing, at the control module, evaluation methods for evaluating the data received to determine suitable data and storing the suitable data within the memory, creating, at the control module, a controlled historical airport information repository and processing historical data via a processor of the control module, and generating airport information reports based on the historical data; and performing data enhancement operations, via a central computing system communicatively coupled with the control module and including linking environmental counts and accumulations with engine data.
- Another embodiment of the present invention includes various methods for enhancing and sub dividing the environmental data using counting and accumulation methods. When these counts and accumulation methods are combined with multiple environmental thresholds, the invention can more precisely capture engine health and engine maintenance needs. This environmental data can also be counted and accumulated over extended time periods, over various operating locations and/or over the entire flight envelope. In addition, the breadth of airborne environmental data includes unique environmental particulate values at various, multiple distinct elevations above the ground to accommodate the entire flight envelope.
- The foregoing has broadly outlined some of the aspects and features of various embodiments, which should be construed to be merely illustrative of various potential applications of the disclosure. Other beneficial results can be obtained by applying the disclosed information in a different manner or by combining various aspects of the disclosed embodiments. Accordingly, other aspects and a more comprehensive understanding may be obtained by referring to the detailed description of the exemplary embodiments taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawings, in addition to the scope defined by the claims.
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FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an engine health management system that can be implemented within embodiments of the present invention. -
FIG. 2 is a data and process flow illustrating a method of determining various types of environmental data including weather and particulate data and their effect on aviation engines, that can be implemented within one or more alternative embodiments of the present invention. -
FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating multiple environmental data sub-dividing and various particulate and associated distress classification operations included in the process flow shown inFIG. 2 , that can be implemented or linked within one or more alternative embodiments of the present invention. -
FIG. 4 is a detailed process flow illustrating further specific operations performed by the controller module of the engine health management system, and the types of data to be linked and stored in the database of the engine health management system ofFIG. 1 andFIG. 2 , that can be implemented within one or more embodiments of the present invention. - The drawings are only for purposes of illustrating preferred embodiments and are not to be construed as limiting the disclosure. Given the following enabling description of the drawings, the novel aspects of the present disclosure should become evident to a person of ordinary skill in the art. This detailed description uses numerical and letter designations to refer to features in the drawings. Like or similar designations in the drawings and description have been used to refer to like or similar parts of embodiments of the invention.
- As required, detailed embodiments are disclosed herein. It must be understood that the disclosed embodiments are merely exemplary of various and alternative forms. As used herein, the word “exemplary” is used expansively to refer to embodiments that serve as illustrations, specimens, models, or patterns. The figures are not necessarily to scale and some features may be exaggerated or minimized to show details of particular components.
- In other instances, well-known components, apparatuses, materials, or methods that are known to those having ordinary skill in the art have not been described in detail in order to avoid obscuring the present disclosure. Therefore, specific structural and functional details disclosed herein are not to be interpreted as limiting, but merely as a basis for the claims and as a representative basis for teaching one skilled in the art.
- The embodiments of the present invention a system and method for detecting and quantifying global environmental aerosols and particulate that impact aviation and other air breathing engines and identifying the different issues they produce to allow for predictive engine health, targeted engine inspections, planned engine maintenance and updated hardware design. The method includes daily tracking and quantification of the various environmental aerosols and weather data, which when combined with engine data, can be used to predict the current health, remaining life and overhaul scheduling of the aviation engines. Further purpose of illustration, the present invention will be described with respect to an aviation engine, however the present invention is not limited hereto and can be applied to non-aviation applications whereby environmental factors such as dust ice, ice crystals, aerosols, volcanic ash, sand, silt, water vapor, pollution, smoke, sulfur, calcium, silica, sea salt, potassium, VOCs, deicing fluid, rain, snow, hail, wind speed, wind direction and temperature and other environmental parameters can have an adverse effect on the operation of an engine or device.
- According to an embodiment of the present invention, an engine health management system 100 as shown in
FIG. 1 , is coupled to a plurality of communication links to transfer data to and from an aircraft engine. The communication links can be wired or wireless communication and may be capable of linking with other systems and devices and may include, for example, packet radio, satellite uplink and/or downlink, wireless fidelity (Wifi), WiMax, Bluetooth, ZigBee, 3G wireless signal, code division multiple access (CDMA) wireless signal, global system for mobile communication (GSM), 4G wireless signal, long term evolution (LTE) signal, ethernet, or any combination thereof. - The communication links may also include one or more radios including voice, ACARS-analog, ACARS-digital, SATCOM, cellular, etc. The communication links may allow for communication with maintenance personnel via a maintenance vehicle, ground controllers, or directly to a data operation center.
- The system 100 includes a
data source interface 105, acontrol module 110, a plurality ofrefresh controls 130, acentral computing system 140, and auser interface 150. The detailed operation of the system 100 will now be described with reference toFIGS. 1 and 2 . - The
data source interface 105 identifies, collects and verifies various public, private and internal data sources including for example, remote sensing satellites, and ground-based weather stations. Also included are multiple public airport weather data sources, aircraft and engine reports, local health monitoring stations and multiple airport GPS information sources, public and fee-based airport data (as depicted inFIG. 4 ) and customer information. Thedata source interface 105 collect the various data sources, evaluates initial data quality and determines data source completeness. - The
control module 110 can include at least oneprocessor 112 and at least one memory 114. Thecontrol module 110 receives data from thedata source interface 105. Theprocessor 112 of thecontrol module 110 develops custom evaluation methods for review of the data received from the data sources to determine the most suitable data combination and linking methods according to embodiments of the present invention. Therefore the most complete, linked and evaluated data is stored within the memory 114 for use within the system and methods of the present invention. For example, any new records are compared to existing records to determine unusual variation, discontinuity or outliers using customized statistical and process control techniques. - The
control module 110 further creates a controlled historical airport information repository to process, classify and link previous data via theprocessor 112 which has been received and stored in memory 114 and generates airport information reports based on the information within the repository. Thecontrol module 110 further includes software instructions for performing data quality control processes and data parsing techniques, and outlier evaluation/removal and unit conversions and software instructions to flatten satellite array files and enable linkage to standard data schemes to be stored within memory 114. The data obtained via thedata source interface 105 and thecontrol module 110 are linked together at thecentral computing system 140. - The
central computing system 140 includes aprocessor 142, amemory 144 and adatabase 146. Theprocessor 142 at thecentral computing system 140 performs data enhancement techniques which includes methods for connecting various environmental data, including counts and accumulations data enhancement methodologies. The counting operation utilizes an incremental increase (count) for each and every time the engine encounters an environment condition over the predefined threshold level. The accumulation operation captures the difference between the threshold level and the actual environmental level (delta) and adds that amount to the prior accumulation values. The counts and accumulations processes are aggregated and updated at key intervals such as every arrival and departure airport and at every 1° latitude and every 1° longitude. Both the count and accumulation methods can process and evaluate up to 100 different thresholds from 1-100% to determine the optimum threshold related to the distress, maintenance or TOW being evaluated. Similar processing methods exist for rolling averages, standard deviations, trending slopes for selecting the best method to provide the most clarity for the engine analytic application. The software instructions for performing the data enhancement techniques are stored in thememory 144. As indicated by the arrows therebetween the data retrieved via thedata source interface 105 and thecontrol module 110, along with all environmental and engine post-processed data are stored in thedatabase 146. - The
memory 144 can be a non-volatile memory, non-transitory memory, random access memory (RAM), read-only memory (ROM), flash memory, or one or more different types of memory of thedatabase 146 also includes the various environmental information and accessible by thecontrol module 110 or theprocessor 112 thereof. The particulate information can include parameters related to, for example, different types of environmental aerosols or particulate, compositions, ratios, concentrations, averages and/or their relationship to other data parameters as detailed inFIGS. 3 and 4 . The different types of environmental aerosols or particulates can include for example, dust, ice/ice crystals, aerosols, volcanic ash, sand, silt, water vapor, pollution, smoke, sulfur, calcium, silica, sea salt, potassium, volatile organic compounds (VOCs), deicing fluid, rain, snow and hail. The different types of environmental aerosols or particulates can vary based on wind speed, wind direction or temperature or a combination thereof. - The
central computing system 140 can be remotely located for example, within a data operations center. Thecentral computing system 140 is communicatively coupled with the refresh controls 130 and theuser interface 150. The refresh controls 130 provides hourly, daily, monthly and yearly updates of the data retrieved from thedata source interface 105 and updates the data to be stored inmemory 144 at thecentral computing system 140. - At the
user interface 150, evaluations are performed on past environmental trends to predict future environmental and weather issues to thereby improve inspection intervals and prevent unplanned engine removal. Further, detailed insight into various hardware and engine issues from daily levels of different environmental data provides targeted maintenance actions (e.g., water wash or on-wing maintenance of an aircraft) based on the known engine and hardware configuration also in the data to be stored inmemory 144 at thecentral computing system 140. Based on the methods performed at thecontrol module 110 and thecentral computing system 140, monthly variations, seasonal trends and yearly averages of the effect of the environmental issues can also be provided to a user atinterface 150. - According to embodiments of the present invention, methods and computer program products may also be provided, on any machine-readable media for accomplishing operations of thereof. They can be implemented on existing processors or special purpose processors.
- Embodiments of the present invention can include a computer program product comprising machine readable media for carrying or having machine executable instructions or data structures stored thereon. The machine-readable media may be any available media which may be accessed by a general purpose or special purpose computer or other machine with a processor.
- Embodiments may be practiced in a network environment such as a local area network (LAN) and a wide area network (WAN) or other type of network.
- As shown in
FIG. 2 , amethod 200 of determining environmental and weather data and the effect on the aviation engines using the engine health management system 100 shown inFIG. 1 is provided. - The
method 200 starts atoperation 210 where data is transmitted from internal engine data sources, external purchased data sources, and external public data sources into the engine health management system 100 via the data source interface 105 (as depicted inFIG. 1 ). Themethod 200 then moves tooperation 220. - At
operation 220, the data parsing techniques, review and cross-checking methods, data standardization and quality control processes; and Data enhancement techniques including counts and accumulations data enhancement operations are performed at thecontrol module 110 and thecentral computing system 140, respectively. Additionally, atoperation 220, the data parsing is performed by selecting the applicable airborne environmental and particulate data for the various types and quantities as discussed below with reference toFIG. 3 . The different environmental types can be any of the above-mentioned aerosols or particulates or weather factors. - In
FIG. 3 , the totalairborne particulate 300 is divided into at least two groups based on the different sizes and types of particulate. The particulate size can depend upon global location and can vary continuously. At 310, the particulate is of a first size (size 1) and at 320, the particulate is of a second size (size 2) which is greater than that of the first size (size 1). According to embodiments of the present invention, the first size (size 1) is of a fine particulate less than approximately 1 micron (μm) while the second size (size 2) is of a coarse particulate greater than approximately 1-2 microns (μm). The present invention is not limited hereto, and may vary as necessary. - From 310, the particulate is then further divided into at least two different classification types,
type 1A which causes an oxidation type of hardware distress and atype 1B which causes a corrosion type of hardware distress. Thetype 1A particulate can further be broken down into a sub-species 1A1 that can cause an intergranular grain attack hardware distress. - From 320, the particulate of
size 2 is then split into at least two types,type 2C andtype 2D.Type 2C is known to deposit on internal cooling surfaces thereby reducing cooling effectiveness and increasing metal temperatures and distress.Type 2D is known to infiltrate cooling circuits and plug or restrict small cooling holes thereby increasing metal temperatures and distress. Thetype 2C can further be broken down into a spallation type sub-species, species 2C1 that can infiltrate thermal barrier coatings causing coating spallation and degradation and higher metal temperatures. Any of these types can be potentially correlated as the root cause or the most likely environmental factor for engine hardware distress. - All of the various environmental information stated above can be retrieved in real-time or near real time in order perform necessary inspection or preventative maintenance based on combined assessment with other historical data retrieved from previous data stored and evaluation methods performed.
- Referring back to
FIG. 2 , atoperation 220, the cross-checking of data performed at thecontrol module 110 allows for selection of the most accurate and useful data (as depicted inFIG. 1 via user interface 150). In addition, several methods are available for tracking historical airport code changes, selecting the most accurate airport latitude and longitude information and airport usage information, from the data sources. Based on this information, internal customized methods are performed to adapt to new data or data provided in a different format or data available in a newer version. - In addition, data received from the public health data sources, for example, can undergo quality evaluation and a review and approval process via the
control module 110. The satellite data retrieved can also undergo quality evaluation and parsing methods to flatten satellite array data to a more user friendly format and allow linking to other data of this invention. From the various environmental and weather data sources, the data may undergo a cleaning process with specific software instructions as performed by the processor 112 (as depicted inFIG. 1 ). The processed and cleansed data is then used to create or update the overall environmental database. - Several additional databases can be created and linked including a purchased flight tracking database, an airport information database, reports related to the global environment, engine full flight database and engine snapshot database from the internal engine data sources.
- Referring back to
FIG. 2 ,operation 230 includes performing operations to correctly link the various data sources described above at thecentral computing system 140. - The process continues to
operation 240 where daily updates are performed in real-time or near-real time via the refresh controls 130 as depicted inFIG. 1 . All of the data obtained is then stored in thedatabase 146 at the central computing system 140 (at operation 250). The database 146 (as depicted inFIG. 1 ) can include engine flight data tables and environmental data tables and other associated weather data. - At
operation 260, data is then analyzed and outputted in the form of monthly variations, seasonal trends, yearly averages at theuser interface 150. Atoperation 270, improvements and modifications are made using the customer variation, hardware analytics, and maintenance actions. In operation 380, environmental impact during all flight phases including taxi, takeoff, climb and cruise descent can be determined and linked with all previous data. - The method further includes, at
operations - Software instructions to perform the above-identified methods and operations can be stored in the
database 146 and the memory 114 of the control module 110 (as depicted inFIG. 1 ). By way of example and not limitation, theprocessor 112 is configured to retrieve the software instructions and perform the above-identified methods. Theprocessor 112 can also perform additional methods and operations suitable for the purposes set forth herein. - As shown in
FIG. 4 , the engine health management system 100 (ofFIG. 1 ) further links all of the databases together. This linking can be facilitated by creating the common flight tables and data assembly tables in the database (e.g., database 146). The health management system 100 can also update airport information reports using linking methods based on latitude, longitude, elevation and date/time information. For example, each and every flight record from an individual engine can be linked with all the various environmental and weather data over the entire history to be readily available for users via theuser interface 150 - Embodiments of the present invention provides the advantages of determining and quantifying multiple aerosol types for understanding specific root cause drivers, obtaining daily updates providing real-time and near real-time engine/hardware tracking, and yearly/seasonal trending allowing service contract forecasting. The embodiments also provide for tracking of extreme weather events for determining immediate maintenance needs/faults, providing airport information creating direct linkage to arrival/departure. Additional features provided by the embodiments include the use of the environmental values at various elevations within the atmosphere to provide linkage over full flight path(s) of aircrafts.
- This written description uses examples to disclose the invention including the best mode, and also to enable any person skilled in the art to practice the invention, including making and using any devices or apparatuses and performing any incorporated methods. The patentable scope of the invention is defined by the claims, and may include other examples that occur to those skilled in the art. Such other examples are intended to be within the scope of the claims if they have structural elements that do not differ from the literal language of the claims, or if they include equivalent structural elements with insubstantial differences from the literal languages of the claims.
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