Emerson Power & Water Solutions held its 2021 Ovation Users Group conference virtually, focusing on current industry and business trends, projects, and services. Robert Yeager, president of Power & Water Solutions, and Al Eliasen, president of Emerson’s OSI Digital Grid Solutions, highlighted how the 2020 acquisition of Open Systems International Inc helps the company meet […]
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Average length of service of the contractor’s employees and the skill levels of the various tradespeople are important qualification metrics, advises Bill Kitterman, GM, Bremco Inc, a recent addition to the SVI family of companies. He recommends that you ask for and carefully review resumes. Contractors worth considering for your work should have them ready
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Siemens Energy Day during the virtual 2021 Combined Cycle Users Group (CCUG) conference gave users plenty to think about to keep their plants “relevant” as renewables continue to claim a larger share of generating capacity. Presentations covered the more immediate options for upgrading, optimizing, weatherizing, and cyber-securing your plant, but also longer-term options like adding
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Imagine putting your turbine back together after an outage only to find that you’ve lost 8 MW because the clearances were grossly out of spec. Or adding three days to the outage because someone didn’t check the capacity of the bearing repair shop. Or losing time because the lifting and laydown plan that worked flawlessly
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With winter just over the horizon, the roundtable on winterization at the 2021 conference of the Combined Cycle Users Group was perfectly timed. There are still a few weeks, depending on your plant’s location, to implement best practices shared by colleagues from Woodbridge Energy Center, Dogwood Energy, and others. By virtue of its location and
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The COMBINED CYCLE Journal and the steering committees of the industry’s leading gas-turbine users groups—including 7F, 501F, 501G, 7EA, Western Turbine, Frame 6, 501G, 501D5-D5A, AOG, and V—collaborate to expand the sharing of best practices and lessons learned among owner/operators of large frame and aeroderivative gas turbines. Thirty-one plants listed below participated in the 2021
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International conference, a virtual event, Mar 22-24, 2022 The Fifth International Conference on Film Forming Substances (FFS 2022) will be conducted virtually Mar 22-24, 2022. 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 noon CET. The major themes of this
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If you have never attended a STUG event, the summaries of user presentations from Week Three and Four of the 2020 virtual meeting in this issue of CCJ ONsite will encourage your participation in future in-person, live events. The information shared at these forums, vital to your professional development and your plant’s success, is available
