Steam turbine work on the international stage can have its challenges, but also its successes. Mechanical Dynamics & Analysis (MD&A) was contracted to inspect, analyze, and then straighten a Toshiba® ...

Japan Steel Works (JSW) is one of the largest manufacturers of power generation equipment parts, including rotor shafts for turbines and retaining rings that fasten the coils of generators. The ...

On April 3, 4:00 pm, 2007, the first China made 700 MW 26# turbo-generator rotor in the right bank power station of Three Gorges Project (TGP) was erected into the stator pit successfully by bridge ...

Among maintenance outage quandaries power plant operators face is whether to send components off site for repair or have the work done on site. In instances where the job can be accomplished either ...

When most of today’s wind projects were developed, first costs were the focus; operations and maintenance (O&M) costs were largely unknown. Now, with hundreds of turbine models in operation—sometimes ...