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Golden Nuggets from the Combined Cycle Users Group: Part 1

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With the 2023 Combined Cycle Users Group (CCUG) approaching August 28-31 in Atlanta, part of the greater Power Users Combined Conference, reviewing some of the content from last year’s meeting should encourage you to attend or send someone from your organization to experience this valuable content in person. Presentation abstracts below are based on information available only to end users in the […]

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HRSG maintenance: normal, major, preventive

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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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PressureWave+: HRSG deep cleaning effect

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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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Webinar Series: Machine learning improves CCGT availability, capacity, and efficiency

501 F&G Users Group, 7EA Users Group, 7F Users Group, 7HA Users, Alstom Owners Group, Best Practices, CCUG, Controls, D5-D5A Users, Frame 6, Generator Users Group, Generators, HRSGs, STUG, V Users, WTUI / By

Case studies on generation M&D, predictive analytics, capacity/fuel demand forecasting, and performance testing This webinar series, presented by Primex Process Specialists, is directed specifically towards power plant owners and operators to introduce machine-learning basics and how this rapidly evolving technology can improve power plant availability, capacity, and efficiency. Each webinar will include a 30-minute live presentation followed

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Safety top of the mind at Power Users’ Combined Conference

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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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CCUG honors Dave Such with its Individual Achievement Award

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Xcel Energy’s Dave Such was selected the lone recipient of the Combined Cycle Users Group’s Individual Achievement Award (IAA) in 2022, the 26th person to be so honored (list below) since the award’s inception in 2013. Voting is by members of the CCUG’s steering committee, chaired by Phyllis Gassert of Talen Energy. Aaron Kitzmiller of

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Nineteen 2023 meetings focusing on user information needs that you should consider attending

501 F&G Users Group, 7EA Users Group, 7F Users Group, 7HA Users, Alstom Owners Group, Best Practices, CCUG, Controls, D5-D5A Users, Frame 6, Generator Users Group, Generators, HRSGs, STUG, V Users, WTUI / By

February 19–23, 501F Users Group Annual Meeting, Reno, Nev, Peppermill Resort & Spa. Details/registration at www.501fusers.org as they become available. Chairman: Ivan Kush, Cogentrix Energy Power Management. Contact: Jacki Bennis, jacki@somp.co. February 19-23, 501G Users Group Annual Meeting, Reno, Nev, Peppermill Resort & Spa. Meeting is co-located with the 501F Users Group conference. Details/registration at

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Experts address why, when, and how to deal with HP evaporator deposits

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The most recent HRSG Forum, conducted virtually July 21, 2022, broadly addressed high-pressure (HP) evaporator deposits, and specifically under-deposit corrosion (UDC), a leading cause of HRSG tube failures (HTF). The first presentation, by Barry Dooley, Structural Integrity Associates Inc, focused on why UDC occurs, how to detect and analyze it, and its role, along with

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