2022 Power Users Mega Event: Thursday Highlights (Sept 1)

GUG. User presentations and a roundtable discussion are featured until the meeting concludes at noon. Presentation topics include these: Bus-duct circulating-current issues, case history of a sudden field excitation increase, fleet issues seen by one utility, and shaft grounding-brush issues.

PPCUG. No session scheduled, but attendees are welcome to visit any track.

CCUG. Thursday features user presentations on carbon capture, a condenser explosion, non-jurisdictional pressure vessels, and a case history on the failure of an excitation auxiliary transformer. The meeting closes at noon.

STUG. The meeting’s final day is devoted to user presentations and roundtable discussions until it concludes at noon.

LCPG. No session scheduled, but attendees are welcome to visit any track.

7EA. Vendor presentations on extending the service lives of gas-turbine components, and full-rejuvenation heat treatment of GTD111DS, are included among several user presentations and roundtable discussions not firmed up at press time. The meeting concludes for all not interested in joining the MD&A tour of the company’s gas-turbine parts manufacturing and repair facility. This is the same tour that was offered on Monday.

Frame 6B. Two roundtable sessions (I&C and generator/exciter) and two vendor presentations (“Combating the effects of increased cycling” and “Rewinding HV generator stators”) conclude the meeting by noon.

Frame 5. No session scheduled, but attendees are welcome to visit any track.