What do you do when your gas turbine experiences a forced outage (FO), or as Sulzer’s Jim Neurohr and Michael Andrepont put it, a “bump in the night”? Hopefully, your plant already has a plan in place for such emergencies, and they hope you’ll call Sulzer and let them put their full-service shop in LaPorte, […]
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In addition to the best practices published on CCJ Onsite earlier this week, here’s a new batch of ideas owner/operators of any gas turbine can employ at their facility. ESSENTIAL POWER NEWINGTON (EPN), managed by Tom Fallon and operated by Cogentrix Energy Power Management, is a merchant facility that runs primarily on natural gas, and
EMPIRE GENERATING COMPANY, managed by Chet Szymanski and operated by NAES Corp, uses gray-water effluent from a local municipality’s sewage treatment plant as incoming process water for both the steam-generating and cooling-water systems. Water quality, specifically total dissolved solids (measured as conductivity), varies greatly depending on the time of year and the quantity of water
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Brent Converse, the plant engineer at Old Dominion Electric Cooperative’s Wildcat Point Generation Facility, has three decades of experience in the operation and maintenance of powerplant equipment—including advanced-class gas and steam turbines. Among the most important lessons Converse has learned over his career: “Stay ahead of the curve” on things having a significant impact on
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Consolidated Asset Management Services (CAMS), one of the electric-power industry’s leading integrated services firms offering comprehensive asset management, O&M, financial services, and compliance and consulting solutions, shares its considerable experience with those considering a unit purchase in “8-pitfalls to Avoid When Buying a Power Generation Asset,” available online at no cost. Evidence of CAMS’ accomplishments
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The IAPWS Australasian Boiler and HRSG Users Group (ABHUG) returns to in-person meetings this year, hosting its 2022 conference November 15-17, at the Brisbane Convention & Exhibition Centre. Presentations and open discussion sessions will focus on plant operation, maintenance, layup, cycle chemistry, and materials. Participants include users, consultants, and equipment/services providers. Attendees are encouraged to
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To understand the true value of a user group like the Generator Users Group, you must attend and participate in its collaborative, technical environment of generator experts. With the 2022 conference just one month away in San Antonio, the following intends to illustrate the unique content disseminated and absorbed by attendees. The 2021 conference of
DIG DEEPER: SAN ANTONIO, AUGUST 28 – SEPTEMBER 1 The eighth annual meeting of the Generator Users Group returns to in-person conferencing at the Power Users mega event in the San Antonio Marriott Rivercenter, August 29 through September 1, following virtual meetings in 2021 and 2020. From 2015 to 2019 in-person meetings were conducted in
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Clyde Maughan has spearheaded several generator-themed industry initiatives in his 70-plus years (yes, 70+) of unselfish service to power producers, most recently the Generator Expert Skill Register. Finding a well-qualified generator expert for a specific assignment sometimes can challenge plant management, particularly so during these unsettling times of pandemics, global supply-chain issues, and shortages of
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James Joyce, operations manager, MD&A’s Generator Repairs Div, speaking at the 2022 conference of the 7F Users Group, May 23-27, in the Fairmont Dallas Hotel, focused on three topics of particular importance to owner/operators of 7FH2 generators: Spring migration, collector changeout, and flex-link systems. All styles of 7FH2s—Gens One, Two, and Three, plus 324s—are affected
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