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Scott Wambeke reviews O&M of heatrecovery steam generators in the special Spotlight Session
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2. 7F golf tournament
Rick Parker, Zokman Products Inc,
and Lee C Wood, Wood Group Gas
Turbine Services, announced these
results for the 7F golf tournament
conducted at the Stone Mountain
Lakemont Course:
Stan Rose, Cogentrix Inc, longest
drive (hole 3).
Harley Aaron, Dow Chemical Co,
closest to the pin (holes 6 and 8).
Steve House, Consolidated Edison
Co of NY Inc, closest to the pin
(hole 2).
Doug Arnett, Georgia Power Co,
closest to the pin (hole 16).
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HRSG Use
www.HRSGusers.org
er's Group
www.HRSGusers.org
OEM said the machine could be operated, but the user was not comfortable and vane settings were corrected
prior to restart. Interestingly, with all
the advanced technology available to
users today, theres still no replacement to manual adjustment of IGVs
using the ancient protractor.
Online water washing is vital to
minimizing performance degradation between offline washings but
there are industry concerns regarding duration of spray, droplet size,
use of detergents, spray pattern, etc.
Some machines are more sensitive
than others to online washing. The 7F
arguably is the most sensitive. Users
discussed a modification to the OEMsupplied wash system that moves the
erosive effect of washing R0 blades
away from the particularly sensitive
root area to the blade midsection.
A new online water wash system
from GE Energy was mentioned as
the discussion continued. The way
those participating understood it, the
new system would be offered as an
upgrade and would allow online washing for up to 30 minutes daily on units
with P-cut R0 blades, a maximum of
five minutes a day on units without
the P-cut blades.
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Turbines, combustion
systems
The afternoon of Day Two was devoted to the turbine and combustion systems. Ed Fuselier chaired the turbine
session and moderated its roundtable
discussion; Peter So provided the
leadership on combustion systems.
There were three formal user presentations on turbines, two on combustion systems.
Exhaust frame blower repairs.
A user offered an in-situ solution for
repairing exhaust-frame seals. Operators noticed that exhaust-frame blowers were cycling, primarily on startup;
investigation revealed tripping breakers. Root cause was thought to be
exhaust-frame seals split and out of
position. The OEM suggested a stopgap fix: Try to slide seals back into
position and tack-weld.
Plant personnel opted to fix in place
and GE Energy mobilized a technical
advisor and three millwrights for the
job. A piece of the seal was found in the
superheater of the heat-recovery steam
generator, but there was no third-stage
FOD. Service team cut out the support
pipe/channel in one section, removed
Combustion systems
TP failures. Plant was unable to
achieve emissions compliance and
brought in the OEM to retune the
combustion system. Result was positive, but emissions were very close to
regulatory limits. A borescope inspection identified heavy cracking on three
transition pieces. All TPs were removed
and cracking was found on 13 of the 14.
A liberated flow sleeve damaged downstream components; first-stage buckets and nozzles were replaced, secondstage buckets recoated.
DLN tuning issues. This user presentation essentially was a primer on
the tuning of DLN (dry, low NOx) combustion systems. It summarized DLN
operating modes, discussed dynamics
monitoring and alarms, etc. Similar
subject matter is covered in Monitoringand mitigatingcombustion
dynamics, p OH-61, 2007 Outage
Handbook supplement inserted in the
middle of this issue.
A review of TIL updates was
scheduled just prior to adjournment
of Day Two sessions and ahead of the
vendor fair. Productive discussion
includes the intent and impact of the
OEMs technical information letters
issued since the previous conference.
TILs reflect changes, modifications,
and inspections suggested for mitigating issues affecting operation, reliability, maintainability, and/or safety.
TILs sent to 7FA owner/operators
in the year between the 2005 and
2006 meetings were the following:
1509, 1214, 1456, 1345, 1504, 1397,
1475, 1480, 1518, 1498, 1469, 1519,
1520, 1502, 1521, 1522, 1508, 1523,
1524, 1525, 1496, 1528, 1280, 1345,
1287, 1532, 1533, 1330, 1539, and
1540.
cost, 2006 Outage Handbook supplement to the 3Q/2005 issue of the COMBINED CYCLE Journal, available at
www.psimedia.info/ccjarchives.htm.
The nearly 800 engines in the fleet
had accumulated just under 250,000
fired starts and 8.5-million fired hours
at the time of the user-group meeting. Breakdown by operating regime:
peaking, 19% of operating units;
cycling, 43%; and base load, 37%.
The Power Answer Center
received this report card from the
OEM: PAC cases continue to increase
(36,000 in 2004, 42,000 in 2005, 45,000
projected for 2006); nearly 90% of the
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Announcement of conference registration, lodging, and agenda will occur in early 2007.
If you are an Owner-User of a 7F gas turbine and currently are not a member of the 7F Users Group
and wish to join, please email Bill Kessler at kesslerw@coned.com with your request and he will
advise as to membership criteria.
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