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2020 Best of the Best: PSEG Peakers

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 […]

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OVATION USERS GROUP 2020 CONFERENCE REPORT

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

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In-situ extraction of a migrating 7EA S-12 shim saves owner more than $400k

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

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New tools for locating pitting, wall loss, corrosion, cracking in HRSG headers, tubes, welds

TesTex Inc specializes in electromagnetic non-destructive testing and has developed innovative methods and equipment for combined-cycle HRSG healthcare. Founded in 1987, the company, both multi-industry and global, maintains a focus on heat-recovery steam generators in the challenging combined-cycle world. Its primary mission is fast, accurate, and cost-effective NDT services using pioneering state-of-the-art equipment and expertise.

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In-situ extraction of a migrating 7EA S-12 shim saves owner more than $400k

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

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