USER GROUP REPORTS

CTOTF: Addressing user concerns from the GT air inlet out to the transmission line

-Industry Issues: prognostics
-High-Energy Piping concerns
-Cold-weather operational impacts
-GE F-class engines
-GE E- and Legacy-class GTs
-P&W Roundtable
-7F compressor inspections more

-Hot topics @ upcoming meeting
-2013 conference highlights
-Clashing panel
-Rotor-life panel
-Performance enhancement
-Avoid trips on liquid fuel
-Air filters
-Controls panel more

CCUG: Focusing on systems, equipment beyond the gas turbine and steamer

-Fast start/fast ramp plants
-Condenser sparger life limits
-Lessons learned: construction
-The complexities of flexibility
-Safety: a state of mind, a way of life
-Water management more

WTUI: The predominant contributors to forced outages of LM aero engines

-LM2500
-LM5000
-LM6000
-LMS100 more

CCJ 'Best of the Best' GT plants

Effingham County Power

-Control logic protects against unit trips when exhaust T/Cs fail in service
-Using designated equipment to transfer oil
-Preventive damage measures for water-wicking cables
-Observations program strengthens safety culture more

Newington Energy LLC

-Nitrogen mitigates HRSG corrosion, inerts gas lines during maintenance
-Mod to auxiliary cooling system reduces station back-feed
-16-kV switchgear IR scanning windows
-CEMS shelter oxygen analyzer keeps operators safe more

Tenaska Virginia Generating Station

-Building a 21st-century workforce begins with education
-Exterior plant lighting inspection, improvements
-Contractor safety key component to OSHA VPP Star status more

Cosumnes Power Plant, SPA CoGen III, McClellan GT

-Controlling O&M deficiencies key to higher reliability, profitability
-Adding cost-effective and noninvasive fire protection
-Self-generating nitrogen system improves safety, saves money more

Gila River Power Station

-Rethinking water cycle yields big saving at Gila River more

FROM THE EDITOR

Harvey Byron Jansen was as much a star in the engineering world as members of the Brazilian World Cup team are in soccer. He, too, came to be known by his first name, "Harv." more

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