Análise do comportamento de um bloco chave da barragem de Itaipu através da correlação da instrumentação

Abstract

Itaipu Binacional is currently the largest generator of electricity on the planet, when it comes to energy production. Responsible for supplying 15% of the energy consumed in Brazil and 86% of the energy consumed in Paraguay. Therefore it is important in the economic scenario of the two countries, which are partners in the enterprise. In order to maintain generation stability and safety, it is important to ensure that their structures are sound and well monitored. This monitoring takes place through the 2500 instruments installed in the dam, along with the visual inspections, which are carried out by the technical staff of the Plant. With such a wide range of instruments, which present results of different magnitudes, it is difficult to perform an overall analysis of the behavior of the structure. This work seeks to correlate the results of the installed instruments in a representative block of the dam, aiming to obtain indices that allow to evaluate if the results presented by a certain type of instrument interfere in another, even monitoring different quantities. In the future this can be used to perform predictions of behavior of an instrument, based on another that is correlated.