AGT Services Inc’s Jamie Clark frequently is asked to present at user group meetings given his deep knowledge of generators. At last year’s (2022) Frame 5 Users Group conference, Clark conducted a well-received workshop on generator testing, inspection, and condition assessment which is of value to most participants in the Legacy Turbine Users Group—owner/operators of […]
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The Frame 6B Users Group’s 2023 Conference and Vendor Fair is only six weeks away, July 17-20, in the Sheraton Grand at Wild Horse Pass (near Phoenix). The meeting is co-located with the annual conferences of the Frame 5 and 7EA Users Groups, all three organizations coming together for meals and the exhibition. Collectively, the
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Sponsored content from Bremco, an SVI Industrial company. The complex steam/water circuitry of heat-recovery steam generators, especially that in the multi-pressure HRSGs typically used in large-power applications, often requires special considerations when scheduling and performing maintenance and repairs. Many combined cycles go through multiple load changes daily—including on/off operation—which put intense thermal, mechanical, and water-chemistry
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Sponsored content from Bang&Clean Technologies AG and GE Gas Power By Marc Keusch, John Weimar, and Kenneth Hutchison As grid dynamics evolve, plant efficiency and fuel costs have become increasingly important for combined-cycle asset owners. Operators are requesting low-cost support to achieve incremental gains in performance of their assets to ensure they can continue running
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Case studies on generation M&D, predictive analytics, capacity/fuel demand forecasting As a follow-on to its popular 2023 webinar series, Primex presents a new and improved series to help power plant managers understand machine-learning basics and learn how this rapidly evolving technology can improve power plant availability, capacity, and efficiency. Each webinar includes a 20-30 minute
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The Power Users’ Mega Event—incorporating the annual conferences of the Combined Cycle (CCUG), Steam Turbine (STUG), Power Plant Controls (PPCUG), and Generator (GUG) Users Groups, plus the Low Carbon Peer Group—is only about three months away (August 28-31, Omni Atlanta Hotel at CNN). Consider getting your travel request into management early so you don’t miss
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The almost incalculable value of a great user’s conference presentation is learning about a forced outage or safety event that happened at someone else’s plant and making sure it doesn’t happen at yours. In that category is surely one from the Steam Turbine Users Group (STUG 2022) on turning-gear reliability. The utility presenter was a
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Turbine Tip No. 17 from the PAL solutions library applies to most models of legacy GE gas turbines. Fast starting was a feature offered on some General Electric Package Power Plants (PPP) as a response to electric-utility concerns following the Great Northeast Blackout of 1965. Power companies in the US and Canada became aware very
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As we prepare for the upcoming 7F Users Group annual conference in Atlanta, May 15-19, let’s take a look back at some of the most pertinent vendor presentations from last year, many of which will be updated and presented this year. Good to have some background details and foundational information of the non-OEM solutions for
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Gas Turbine Powerhouse Development of the power-generation GT at BBC/ABB/Alstom By Prof Dr-Ing Dietrich Eckardt De Gruyter, Oldenbourg, 498 pages, $85 Available on Amazon Reviewed by John F D Peterson The fact that you are looking at this page in Combined Cycle Journal gives me high confidence that you are not only familiar with gas
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