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Webinar Series: Machine learning improves CCGT availability, capacity, and efficiency

501 F&G Users Group, 7EA Users Group, 7F Users Group, Advanced GTs, Aeros, Alstom Owners Group, Best Practices, CCUG, Controls, D5-D5A Users, Frame 6, Generator Users Group, Generators, HRSGs, STUG, V Users / By Team-CCJ

Case studies on generation M&D, predictive analytics, capacity/fuel demand forecasting As a follow-on to its popular 2023 webinar series, Primex presents a new and improved series to help power plant managers understand machine-learning basics and learn how this rapidly evolving technology can improve power plant availability, capacity, and efficiency. Each webinar includes a 20-30 minute […]

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Safety top of the mind at Power Users’ Combined Conference

CCUG, Controls, Generators, STUG / By Team-CCJ

The Power Users’ Mega Event—incorporating the annual conferences of the Combined Cycle (CCUG), Steam Turbine (STUG), Power Plant Controls (PPCUG), and Generator (GUG) Users Groups, plus the Low Carbon Peer Group—is only about three months away (August 28-31, Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN). Consider getting your travel request into management early so you don’t miss

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Turning gear, motor reliability may need a fresh look

CCUG, STUG / By Team-CCJ

The almost incalculable value of a great user’s conference presentation is learning about a forced outage or safety event that happened at someone else’s plant and making sure it doesn’t happen at yours. In that category is surely one from the Steam Turbine Users Group (STUG 2022) on turning-gear reliability. The utility presenter was a

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Turbine Tip No. 17: The case against fast starts

Uncategorized / By Team-CCJ

Turbine Tip No. 17 from the PAL solutions library applies to most models of legacy GE gas turbines. Fast starting was a feature offered on some General Electric Package Power Plants (PPP) as a response to electric-utility concerns following the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965. Power companies in the US and Canada became aware very

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Non-OEM solutions providers talk generators, turbine upgrades, and more

7F Users Group / By Team-CCJ

As we prepare for the upcoming 7F Users Group annual conference in Atlanta, May 15-19, let’s take a look back at some of the most pertinent vendor presentations from last year, many of which will be updated and presented this year. Good to have some background details and foundational information of the non-OEM solutions for

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BOOKSHELF ǁ How your gas turbine came to be

Frame 6 / By Team-CCJ

Gas Turbine Powerhouse Development of the power-generation GT at BBC/ABB/Alstom By Prof Dr-Ing Dietrich Eckardt De Gruyter, Oldenbourg, 498 pages, $85 Available on Amazon Reviewed by John F D Peterson The fact that you are looking at this page in Combined Cycle Journal gives me high confidence that you are not only familiar with gas

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BASF Geismar: Increase equipment protection using duct-burner firing overrides

Frame 6 / By Team-CCJ

BASF Geismar Owned and operated by BASF Chemical Co 85 MW, gas fired, two 1 × 1 Frame 6-powered cogeneration units (one with an unfired HRSG, one fired) plus four conventional boilers and one small steam turbine/generator, located in Geismar, La Plant manager: Graham White Challenge. Plant’s HRSG duct-burner firing rate (fuel control valve) was

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Gas Turbine Historical Society: 7F Users Group

7F Users Group / By Team-CCJ

With the 33rd annual meeting of the 7F Users Group less than a week away in Atlanta, we take a look back to its first meeting many moons ago to provide some historical perspective on the humble beginnings of what has become the world’s largest fleet of heavy industrial gas turbines (likely to hold that

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Rumford best practices cut O&M costs, reduce hot start duration

7F Users Group / By Team-CCJ

Rumford Power LLC Owned and operated by Cogentrix Energy Power Management 270 MW, gas-fired 1 × 1 7FA.03-powered combined cycle equipped with a Nooter Eriksen HRSG and a GE A10 steam turbine, located in Rumford, Me Plant manager: Justin Castagna Reduce O&M cost by cutting energy consumption when offline Challenge. The operational profile for Rumford

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Salem Harbor: Winter-readiness testing upgrades reduce startup issues

7F Users Group / By Team-CCJ

Salem Harbor Station Owned by Footprint Power Salem Harbor Development LP Operated by NAES Corp 674 MW, two gas-fired 1 × 1 7FA.05-powered combined cycles equipped with Doosan HRSGs and GE A14 steam turbines, located in Salem, Mass Plant manager: Max Greig Challenge. Salem Harbor Station is located on the seacoast in the Northeast, where

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