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The Gas Turbine Inlet
THE WHOLE PLANT IMPERATIVE • PART 6 The only system on the plant whose failure gets blamed on something else — usually on the most expensive asset you own. Output is off about two percent. Heat rate has crept. Nobody can point to an event, so the water washes get...
Catalyst Systems and CEMS
THE WHOLE PLANT IMPERATIVE • PART 5 The one place on the plant where deferral doesn’t buy you time. It buys you a deadline somebody else sets. The day a notice of violation arrives, the plant is usually running fine. Nothing tripped. Nothing alarmed. Availability for...
Cooling and the Summer Peak
THE WHOLE PLANT IMPERATIVE • PART 4 The one system that takes its cut without ever tripping a unit, setting an alarm, or generating a line in the outage report. Every other failure on a plant announces itself. A tube leak takes the unit down. A compressor problem...
The HRSG
THE WHOLE PLANT IMPERATIVE • PART 3 No moving parts, a fraction of the attention, and more forced outages to its name than anything else on site. Ask a plant manager to name the riskiest asset on site and you’ll usually hear “the turbine.” Pull five years of...
More Than a Turbine
THE WHOLE PLANT IMPERATIVE • PART 2 Why the best-run plants treat availability as a property of the whole system — and manage it that way. Two combined-cycle plants: same vintage, same OEM equipment, similar staffing. One runs at 96% availability year after year. The...
The Stakes Have Changed
THE WHOLE PLANT IMPERATIVE • PART 1 For twenty years, deferring maintenance was a safe bet. On today’s grid, it may be the most expensive one you can make. Start with the worst possible afternoon. It’s the hottest day of the summer, the grid is leaning on every...
The Whole-Plant Imperative • A 10-Part Series
YOUR TURBINE IS FINE. THE ASSETS AROUND IT MAY NOT BE. What actually determines whether a power plant performs — and the blind spot quietly costing the industry millions.. Walk into almost any combined-cycle facility, ask where the money and the attention go, and...
The Maintenance Math Just Changed. The Calendar Hasn’t Caught Up.
Why summer is the season for industrial coatings and mechanical services — and why the way you fund and time this work matters more than it used to. Capacity repriced, turbines hit six-year lead times, and the asset you already own got a lot more valuable. The old...
The Grid Is Betting on Gas Plants Performing. The Question Is Who Understands What That Requires.
Gas Turbine Maintenance Strategies for Reliable Power Plant Performance Need help improving plant reliability and performance? Connect with Groome to discuss your maintenance strategy or visit our Gas Turbine Solutions page. The Strategic Reality of Power Generation...
The Importance of Protecting a Facility’s Assets & the Cost of Corrosion
The cost of corrosion is high. It can be very high. As an example, it is estimated that pipeline corrosion alone accounts for close to US$9 billion in expenditures on an annual basis across North America, according to North American Oil & Gas Pipelines. This data...
