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Plant air condition system operation challenge

1, Site situation ESEC located a city which winter temperature at -33 degree C and the summer  time site temperature can up to 34 C, air condition system face a lot of challenge due to site temperature big change yearly. Figure 1 summer site temperature 34.1 °C                                                                            Figure 2 Site winter time site temperature …

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Two shift operation combined cycle power HRSG operation challenge

1 Combined cycle power plant operation mode Depends the power plant located the place, some power gird has different engergy source wind power , coal power, neclear power, solar panel, which will make the combine cycle power plant  operation mode changed, opeation can be two shift operation or base load operation In the meaning time …

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Two shift combined cycler power plant—steam hammer damage the hanger

1 SGEC plant operation The plant Fueled by natural gas, the power generating block consists of three Siemens Westinghouse 501 F combustion gas turbine generators, three Deltak heat recovery steam generators, a single 517mw Toshiba steam turbine generator, and a wet mechanical draft cooling tower. The facility, with a nameplate capacity of 1,005 MW, which …

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Two shift operation power plant cooling tower challenge

1 Cooing tower introduce SEGC cooling tower is largest cooling tower in Canada which provide 507 MW steam turbine condenser. The cooling tower length is 231.04meter, width is 18.28 meters, to  fill the cooling tower needs 7492.12 m3 water.  Two circulation pumps installed, each one has 24100 m3/hr flow, cooling includes 14 cooling tower fans. …

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Gas turbine hot gas path damaged due to cooling issue

Plant situation The plant Fueled by natural gas, the power generating block consists of three 501 F combustion gas turbine generators, three heat recovery steam generators, a single 517mw Toshiba steam turbine generator, and a wet mechanical draft cooling tower. The facility, with a nameplate capacity of 1,005 MW, which includes Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) …

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Gas turbine generator lead bus three phase short accidents

Plant situaiton The plant Fueled by natural gas, the power generating block consists of three Siemens Westinghouse 501 F combustion gas turbine generators, three Deltak heat recovery steam generators, a single 517mw Toshiba steam turbine generator, and a wet mechanical draft cooling tower. The facility, with a nameplate capacity of 1,005 MW, which includes Selective …

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STG lube oil cooler pit corrosion root cause and analysis

1 Corrosion general Corrosion is serious problem in the world, each year the over trillion dollars are lost in the world, every year industrial company spread another trillion dollars to prevent corrosion, from building, bridge to ship industrial process all the equipment with metal material is experience the corrosion. Corrosion is a natural process that converts a refined …

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