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® ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Download this article in PDF format. Wind turbines larger than 6 MW are becoming common, particularly for offshore installations, where consolidating several smaller wind turbines into one large ...

Unit 1 at the Donald Cook nuclear power station in Michigan, USA, will not return to service until September 2009 at the earliest, and could remain off line until 2010, following damage to a turbine ...