CCJ ONsite’s coverage of 2018 award-winning best practices from 7F owner/operators concludes here. The five entries from four plants (Bastrop, MEAG Wansley, Nuevo Pemex, and Rathdrum), all operated by NAES Corp, were recognized for their value by judges with deep knowledge of this frame. In sum, fourteen 7F plants shared 26 best practices with their […]
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The nine Best Practices summarized here conclude CCJ ONsite’s coverage of more than 60 entries in CCJ’s awards program that were recognized by the judges in 2018 for their value to owner/operators of plants powered by gas turbines. Judging of the 2019 entries begins in March. Starting-motor trolley rail increases outage efficiency, safety Florida’s Mulberry
The second workshop conducted at the 2018 meeting of the Australasian Boiler and HRSG Users Group covered the types of corrosion found under insulation (CUI)—galvanic, chloride, acidic, and alkaline-induced—attributed to moisture buildup on the external surfaces of insulated equipment (piping and vessels). If untreated, CUI leads to corrosion and forced or extended outages. Common temperature
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A workshop on optimization of steam-turbine bypass systems at the 2018 meeting of the Australasian Boiler and HRSG Users Group, led by Bob Anderson, Competitive Power Resources Corp, covered the arrangement, purpose, and methods for operating and maintaining this equipment. Vibrant discussion followed presentations by Anderson, Justin Goodwin of Emerson/Fisher, Ory Selzer of IMI CCI,
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The main technical program at Frame 6 meetings begins at 8 a.m. Tuesday morning (June 11 in 2019), following Monday’s engine familiarization workshop and welcome reception and dinner. Roundtable discussions led by members of the steering committee and one of the two invited vendor presentations fill the first-day program until the vendor fair and reception at
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The Frame 6B OEM was responsible for the Wednesday technical program and split the day with the morning dedicated to fleet-wide topics suggested by the steering committee and the afternoon divided among three discussion-focused breakout sessions catering to specific user interests. A “state of the frame” presentation launched the GE Day program with highlights of
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The user-only compressor session in 2018 didn’t include any new topics, at least while the editors were in the room. At most 6B meetings, discussions include filter experience (HEPA in particular in recent years), online and offline washing, corrosives and particulates in the air impacting compressor cleanliness (and how to remove them), inlet bleed heat,
With much of the time at Frame 6 meetings devoted to user presentations and deep discussion, there remains limited time for vendor presentations. Each year, the steering committee chooses two third-party vendor presentations in tune with what owner/operators are experiencing in the field. The topics selected for the 2018 meeting dealt with combustion hardware and
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Discussion on the turbine section always is robust at Frame 6 Users Group meetings, likely because there are many “senior” machines in the fleet—those with well over 100k operating hours. Current thinking of the OEM and a few others is that an end-of-life inspection should be done at about 100,000 hours and that the rotor
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The third International Conference on Film Forming Substances (FFS2019), chaired by Barry Dooley of Structural Integrity Associates Inc, provided a highly interactive forum for the presentation of new information and technology related to FFS, research results, case studies of powerplant and industrial applications, and open discussion among users, equipment and chemical suppliers, researchers, and industry
