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Management of compliance risks focus of NAES’ 2021 NERC conference

Why would NAES Corp, the largest third-party O&M services provider to combined-cycle facilities, run a three-day conference on NERC-related issues and compliance for its people and select clients and industry stakeholders? For one thing, NAES has 130 plants under its purview and supports over 100 plants outside its portfolio. Then you might ask: Why does […]

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Commentary: Industry suffers consequences from cold-weather-ops design decisions

You can spend a lot of quality time pointing fingers towards whom or what was to blame for the cold-weather issues experienced in several electricity markets—most notably Ercot—during February 2021. But no question, many gas-fired plants and their fuel suppliers were ill-prepared for the sustained cold weather. Lessons that may have been learned during previous

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EUROPEAN HRSG FORUM: International conference, a virtual event, May 17-22, 2022

The Eighth International European HRSG Forum (EHF 2022) will be conducted virtually May 17-19, 2022. Format: A three-hour program in English each day, beginning 9 a.m. Central European Summer Time (4 a.m. US East Coast time) and concluding at noon CEST. Call for presentations: This conference will feature both invited and contributed technical papers. Please

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FILM FORMING SUBSTANCES: International conference, a virtual event, March 22-23 and 29-30, 2022

The Fifth International Conference on Film Forming Substances (FFS 2022) will be conducted virtually March 22-23 and 29-30. Format: A three-hour program in English each day, beginning 9 a.m. Central European Time (4 a.m. US East Coast time) and concluding at 12:30 p.m. CET. The major themes of this event are dedicated to advancing the

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MD&A February Webinar Series | Operational Expertise to Troubleshoot Difficult Operating Issues

This 4-part webinar series focuses on performance & efficiency enhancements for the aging turbine-generator fleet. Register today! Operational issues can arise during unit operation which can affect performance or lead to a forced outage. To keep you running and help address these operational challenges, MD&A leverages the diverse experience of our engineers and Subject Matter

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GENERATOR EXPERT SKILL REGISTER

Why you want to participate Finding a well-qualified generator expert for a specific assignment sometimes can challenge plant management, particularly so during the pandemic when inspecting machines and guiding maintenance and repairs may have to be done remotely. This Skill Register was developed in response to current needs. Every engineer with deep generator experience is

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Generator Experts

Click name to access detailed information on each generator expert. Jamie Clark Jamie earned his BSME from Florida Tech as a Commissioned US Army Reserves Infantry Officer in 1996 and began his mechanical engineering career with General Electric in 1997 where he was responsible for the design of generator auxiliary systems ranging from hydrogen cooling

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Commentary: The value of remote technical support during generator inspections, maintenance

Clyde V Maughan, president, Maughan Generator Consultants Cost-containment initiatives over the past several years have encouraged the move to more offsite technical support of outages in powerplants. More recently, Covid-19 travel restrictions have made onsite technical support difficult. Thus, offsite support via video-chat technology has become more common. This has encouraged discussions questioning the adequacy

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GE brings users up-to-speed on generator fleet

Ryan LeClair, generator product-line manager, Gas Power Services, opened the GE Day program for the Generator Users Group (GUG) with an overview of the topics to be discussed, including: negative-sequence-current impacts and causes, fleet updates and new observations, 7FH2/B family and 2020 stator update, amortisseur spring axial migration cases and retention solutions, HiPot testing, and

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