The 7F Users Group and CCJ are working together to expand the sharing of best practices and lessons learned among owner/operators of large frame engines. One of the user organization’s objectives is to help members better operate and maintain their plants, and a proactive best practices program supports this goal. Consider submitting to the 2022 […]

A roundtable on winterization at the 2021 conference of the Combined Cycle Users Group drew on the vast experience owner/operators who have faced heat-trace-system challenges at their facilities. There are still two outage seasons before winter 2023 to implement the many best practices shared by colleagues from Woodbridge Energy Center, Dogwood Energy, and others. By

A quick search of the CCJ’s editorial archives shows how much arc-flash safety is on the minds of owner/operators, especially in the best practices category. Whether you have a formal arc-flash safety program or not at your facility, there’s still much to be gained by listening to Aaron Neuvert’s presentation on this important topic at

Calling it “safer, faster, and deeper” than dry-ice blasting, Jeff Bause, CEO, Groome Industrial Service Group, introduced participants in the 2021 virtual conference of the Combined Cycle Users Group to KinetiClean HRSG tube cleaning, a patented kinetic shockwave technique widely used in other industries but new to combined cycles. It was developed by Explosive Professionals

The world’s largest user organization supporting owner/operators of 7F gas turbines promises the industry’s most robust in-person meeting of its type since the pandemic began two years ago, when the group meets at the Fairmont Dallas Hotel, May 23-27. Recall that the 7F Users Group pioneered a return to in-person conferencing last August, conducting its