HRSGs

A valuable feature of Power Users conferences is audience polling, which was pioneered by the 7F Users Group a few years ago. The steering committee and presenters use polling to ask owner/operators for their opinions on industry trends, the information needs of attendees, etc. Because the feedback is virtually instantaneous, it can identify where clarification […]

One of the unique aspects of the 7F Users Group’s 2020 Digital Conference is the opportunity to interact online with the OEM and nearly 50 third-party solutions providers. Ten companies in the latter group were selected by the steering committee to conduct live technical presentations which are available for on-demand playpack. The remaining solutions providers

Editor’s note: The traditional annual conferences of all user groups serving the gas-turbine sector of the US electric-power industry scheduled between Mar 1, 2020 and Dec 31 have been canceled because of the Covid-19 pandemic. The 30th anniversary meeting of the Western Turbine Users (slated for March 29 to April 1 at the Long Beach

Special to CCJ ONsite By Larry Muzio and Sean Bogseth, Fossil Energy Research Corp, and Frederic Vitse, GE Power Portfolio Selective catalytic reduction (SCR) is widely used to reduce NOx emissions from gas-turbine powerplants—both simple- and combined-cycle units. Once the catalyst is installed it is important to monitor its activity periodically. This involves removing a

So you switch hemispheres in both directions, west to east then north to south, and you discover that the pesky HRSG operational issues and concerns you are familiar with are much the same everywhere. The 2018 Australasian Boiler and HRSG Users Group (ABHUG) Conference and Workshops, held last November, confirmed this view. The organization’s 11th

A special report by Consulting Editor Steve Stultz based on information shared at the HRSG Forum with Bob Anderson The 2018 HRSG Forum with Bob Anderson, held in Houston, March 5-7, like its predecessor in Charlotte, captured the topics of immediate interest to HRSG experts and combined-cycle system owner/operators. There were spirited discussions before, during,

Finding and fixing HRSG tube leaks before they can grow to the point of requiring an unplanned outage to correct them is a priority of many maintenance managers during annual inspections. Tube-to-header welds are particularly susceptible to cracking and leakage given today’s fast-start/fast-ramp operating practices. There are several tools inspection personnel traditionally have used to

Powerplant work can be a humbling experience. It seems that once you begin feeling overly comfortable about how well your facility is running, something unexpected occurs and snaps you back to reality. You can blame the “bad luck” on the gremlins, but more likely the cause was human error. Consider the following experience at a

Jeff Bause, Noxco’s CEO, opened the webinar by explaining to turbine users how his company is raising an industry bar with the first LTSA (long-term service agreement) for emissions compliance. He said that by removing the burden and responsibility for protecting and managing complex systems from owner/operators, Noxco delivers performance, predictability, cash flow, and 100%

Metal temperature is, perhaps, the variable most affecting the service lives of superheaters and reheaters. Long-term overheating of these components can result in failures necessitating multi-million-dollar repairs, based on the experience of Bryan Craig, PE, and his colleagues at HRST Inc. There is an upward trend for overheating failures in the industry, and many HRSGs