By Steven C Stultz, Consulting Editor The Ninth IAPWS European HRSG Forum (EHF 2023) took place in Prato, Italy, May 16 – 18. More than 80 attendees from 18 countries joined this event to discuss key global issues for combined-cycle owners, operators, plant personnel, service providers, and consultants. EHF is one of three associated annual […]
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By Steven C Stultz, Consulting Editor The sixth annual IAPWS Conference on Film Forming Substances, held March 21-23 (2023) in Prato, Italy, was chaired by Barry Dooley of Structural Integrity Associates (UK) and David Addison of Thermal Chemistry (New Zealand). FFS conferences, sponsored by the International Association for the Properties of Water and Steam, are
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By Vaughn Watson, Vector Systems Inc The long-term performance of an SCR system depends on the efficiency of its critical components (Fig 1). While the catalyst often gets all the credit, and all the blame when performance declines, proper maintenance and routine inspection of the ammonia system can alleviate and prevent many factors that contribute
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The COMBINED CYCLE Journal and the steering committees of the industry’s leading users groups—including 7F, 501F, 501G, 7EA, 7/9HA, Western Turbine, CCUG, STUG, GUG, PPCUG, Frame 6B, Frame 5, 501D5-D5A, AOG, and V—collaborate to expand the sharing of best practices and lessons learned among owner/operators of large frame and aeroderivative gas turbines. Thirty-eight plants listed
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Phoenix Rotor™ gives facility the best of both worlds KEY POINTS Units returned to 200,000 factored fired hours Lengthy outages avoided CapEx savings of around 40% compared with a new rotor from the OEM THE CHALLENGE: Going beyond rotor end of life Gas turbine rotors have a finite lifetime. Heavy-duty gas turbine rotors in particular,
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Primex, the latest entrant into the field of operational anomaly detection and machine-learning (ML) services for gas-turbine-based plants, introduced its technology to the wider combined-cycle (CC) community through a series of four webinars held in June and July 2023. The legacy application of the technology has been for SO2 scrubber and BOP performance at coal-fired
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With the 2023 Steam Turbine Users Group (STUG) 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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The third and final in the NAES, ABS Group, Network Perception cybersecurity webinar series covered NERC CIP-003-9: What Now? Response Requirements. While the NERC standard is still subject to revisions and tweaks in the coming months, there is enough “writing on the wall” for low-impact bulk electric system (LIBES) sites to begin the long slog towards
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Perhaps the best way to think about how to respond to NERC-CIP-9, which seeks to protect the bulk electric system from a coordinated attack on smaller, low-impact assets which can result in a catastrophic event on the interconnected system, is this: Rather than think in terms of complying with the new standard, think about defending
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Just as plant owner/operators should “be prepared for an ever-changing cybersecurity attack surface, they should also plan to control their own destinies with respect to regulatory compliance,” noted a panel of experts during a webinar hosted by NAES Corporation titled “NERC CIP-003-9: What you need to know about the new requirements and how to comply.”
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