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Vibration monitoring is primarily effective for detecting issues such as misalignment, imbalance, and looseness, which lead to distinct vibration patterns that can be analyzed to identify the specific fault. However, uniform impeller wear typically manifests as a gradual reduction in performance rather than sudden changes in vibration signatures.

This means that while vibration monitoring may capture symptoms of wear indirectly, it won't effectively indicate the occurrence of uniform wear itself. Uniform wear tends to alter the geometry of the impeller gradually and does not typically introduce the abrupt changes in vibration amplitude or frequency content that are characteristic of the fault types that vibration analysis best detects.

Thus, uniform impeller wear may not result in significant vibration changes that can be easily identified or attributed solely to that condition, making the conclusion that vibration monitoring does not effectively detect uniform impeller wear an accurate one.