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
Non-OEM solutions providers talk generators, turbine upgrades, and more Read More »
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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BASF Geismar Owned and operated by BASF Chemical Co 85 MW, gas fired, two 1 × 1 Frame 6-powered cogeneration units (one with an unfired HRSG, one fired) plus four conventional boilers and one small steam turbine/generator, located in Geismar, La Plant manager: Graham White Challenge. Plant’s HRSG duct-burner firing rate (fuel control valve) was
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With the 33rd annual meeting of the 7F Users Group less than a week away in Atlanta, we take a look back to its first meeting many moons ago to provide some historical perspective on the humble beginnings of what has become the world’s largest fleet of heavy industrial gas turbines (likely to hold that
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Rumford Power LLC Owned and operated by Cogentrix Energy Power Management 270 MW, gas-fired 1 × 1 7FA.03-powered combined cycle equipped with a Nooter Eriksen HRSG and a GE A10 steam turbine, located in Rumford, Me Plant manager: Justin Castagna Reduce O&M cost by cutting energy consumption when offline Challenge. The operational profile for Rumford
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