Temperatures measured in a hot section of gas turbines are very important for a gas path analysis. A suite of parallel thermocouples are usually installed in the same gas path station in order to compute a filtered and averaged temperature quantity for its further use in control and diagnostic systems. However, in spite of the preliminary treatment, the resulting quantity is not completely free from errors. To eliminate or reduce the errors, the present paper analyzes anomalies in the behaviour of each thermocouple of an industrial gas turbine engine. To that end, time graphs of both measured magnitudes themselves and their deviations from reference magnitudes are plotted. In order to draw sound conclusions, the analysis is conducted on a large volume of the data collected for three particular engines.
