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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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Special technical presentations to generator users focus on insulation repairs, updating of rotors for cyclic duty, field repairs, hi-pot testing, third-harmonic stator ground protection

Presentations made by National Electric Coil, MD&A, AGT Services, and Siemens Energy to owner/operators participating in Weeks Three and Four of the virtual GUG2020 conference are summarized below. You can access the PowerPoints submitted by the first three vendors on the Power Users website. The Siemens presentations are posted on the company’s Customer Extranet Portal

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Owner/operators share experiences on finding leaks, collector flashovers, GVPI stator-bar failure, and much more at final sessions of GUG2020

In anticipation of the upcoming 2021 virtual conference of the Generator Users Group, readers may find recaps of user and consultant presentations from the 2020 virtual meeting quite helpful. If you are a registered “Power User,” on-demand recordings and slide decks are available here. GUG2021, which operates under the Power Users umbrella, will be conducted

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GUG2021: Generator users to discuss matters most pertinent to their operations –starting July 15

The 2021 conference of the Generator Users Group will be a virtual event like the highly successful 2020 online meeting. GUG2021, which operates under the Power Users umbrella, will be conducted on consecutive Thursdays from July 15 through August 5, plus Wednesday, July 21. Registration for the meeting is limited generator owner/operators (users) and comes

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Two HRSG case studies: Flawed original designs get corrected

With just a few excellent slides and a tag team of a design specialist and a construction specialist, Greg Rueff, Vogt Power International, and Tim Holland, TEiC (a Babcock Power company), showed attendees at the first installment of the HRSG Forum’s Supplier Workshop Series that sometimes you have to “redesign and replace” to relieve your

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Proper HRSG inspection helps guard against a forced outage

Plant managers diligently pursue O&M strategies that have a high probability of success for keeping their electric generating assets in service throughout the “must-run” season—this to assure a profitable year. Deciding on what inspections are necessary to access the information needed for reliable decision-making is part of the challenge. Today’s meager budgets do not allow

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