Maintenance, outage file-sharing boosts productivity at four peaking plants Challenges: Downsizing of planning staff created a backlog of outage/maintenance planning and scheduling tasks. Personnel at the Kearny, Burlington, Linden, and Essex peaking sites had to communicate together in real time. Needed a way to consolidate all reference materials, procedures, IPBs, drawings, and schedules for use […]

Turbine Tip No. 8 from the PAL Solutions Library applies to General Electric 5001N, 5002B, 6001B, 7001B-EA and F, and 9001EA and F gas turbines. It is the work of Dave Lucier and Charlie Pond (deceased) of PAL Turbine Services LLC. Proper operation of compressor variable inlet guide vanes (VIGV) is crucial for those gas

Goal of an integrated powerplant knowledge platform nearly reached Twenty-five years ago, at least one powerplant controls company executive articulated a vision of integrating disparate and siloed software applications into a unified whole, anchored by the distributed control system (DCS). That executive was Robert Yeager, long-time president of Emerson’s Power and Water Solutions. At the

It was only a few years ago that owner/operators of GE E- and F-class gas turbines learned technicians from Advanced Turbine Support LLC could extract or blend shims in the first three compressor stages in-situ—no case removal necessary. That was a big deal because shims found protruding into the compressor air stream during a borescope