With outage season in full swing, Greg McAuley, CTO of TRS Services and lead consultant at sister company GMW Consulting, shares his decades of industry experience below in the post-outage checklist he developed for owner/operators of gas and steam turbine/generators. Post-outage reviews and records are particularly important, McAuley says, because you already paid for the […]
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,
Who ya gonna call the day after a ‘bump in the night’? Read More »
Exhaust systems are a presentation and/or discussion topic at most gas-turbine user-group meetings, particularly those supporting F-class and the more advanced frames. Cracking of components, broken struts, material distress, and leaks at joints are almost sure to occur in virtually any system handling a 1000 lb/sec or more of turbine exhaust at 1000F or higher
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The first five years of HRSG operation are critical for building the foundation necessary to assure a reliable and satisfactory service life, said engineers from HRST Inc participating in an editorial roundtable with CCJ staff. In the early years, they continued, control and organization of supplier documentation will benefit current and future decision-making. Plus, timely
At European Technology Development Ltd’s International Conference on Power Plant Operation and Flexibility, held in London in July 2018, ETD’s Dr Ahmed Shibli, the conference organizer, and David Robertson tag-teamed an in-depth presentation on life-prediction concerns for aberrant P91 components often found in electric generating stations worldwide. They are usually the product of not understanding
How best to replace an HP evaporator: Tubes only or entire harp? Editor’s note: Online forums hosted by independent users groups are an invaluable communications medium for sharing experiences among industry colleagues. Power Users, which sponsors user-only discussion forums for the groups it manages—7F, Combined Cycle, Generator, and Steam Turbine—most recently launched an online HRSG
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More tools, more features, fewer connections: Ovation scope expands There were reasons why David Farr, chairman/CEO of Emerson Corp, parent to Emerson’s Power & Water Solutions (PWS) business, delivered the opening address at the annual Ovation Users Group Conference, held in Pittsburgh, July 29 – Aug 2. At least one could speculate, reading between the
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The 501F fleet was recognized by peers with five Best Practices awards in the 2018 judging. The annual program, sponsored by CCJ, has as its primary objective recognition of the valuable contributions made by owner/operator personnel to improve the safety and performance of generating facilities powered by gas turbines. In this section, 501F plants share
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From central to distributed: The inflection point still not clear At the Distributed Energy Conference in Denver, Oct 15-17, 2018, one of the electric-power industry’s top analysts came away with the sense that the “inflection,” marking the point at which investment in distributed assets grows faster than that in centralized assets, hasn’t yet arrived. And
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Progress has been made in making online partial discharge (PD) monitoring technology a viable method for assessing the condition of motor and generator stator-winding insulation. Problems have been identified on many machines and maintenance was possible to slow down or correct the problem before failure occurred. To gain this acceptance, earlier skepticism of the usefulness
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