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PAL Turbine Services, LLC will provide technical training for the In-House Overhaul Process (I-HOP) for an upcoming major inspection of a MS7001B gas turbine for Exelon at the Croydon station. Training for millwrights, mechanics and maintenance engineers will commence on September 7 and continue until September 10th. The outage begins on Monday, September 13. It is expected to continue through mid-December 2010. PAL will provide a senior technical advisor (TA) and mechanical assistant (MA) for the duration of the outage.
RRI Energy in Pittsburgh, PA has hired PAL Turbine Services, LLC of Clifton Park, NY to provide Project Management (PM), Tecnical Direction (TD) and Technical Advisory (TA) services for a modified Hot Gas Path inspection on a MS5001N gas turbine on Brunots Island. The site is in middle of a river to the west of Pittsburgh. PAL will provide two engineers to conduct the outage scheduled to begin September 13th and last approximately 52 days. The last time the gas turbine was opened for inspection was 1979. PAL conducted a borescope inspection in 2007. Two other frame 5s on the island are slated to be overhauled in 2011.
PAL Turbine Services, LLC has been hired to provide Technical Advisory (TA) services for Delta-Michigan in Ludington, MI. This is a hot gas path (HGP) inspection of a MS7001EA gas turbine with DLN-1. The outage is expected to last aboaut 2 1/2 weeks starting on September 13, 2010.
Valero Oil Refinery in Aruba has hired PAL Turbine Services, LLC to provide a technical advisor (TA) to oversee General Electric in the replacement of a MS5001P exhaust. Also, PAL will be there to recommission the gas turbine after sitting idle for over two years as the refinery had been temporarily “mothballed.”
PAL recently sold three new old stock (NOS) Oilgear fuel pumps to L.S. Energia to be supplied to MS5001LA gas turbines in Angola (southern Africa). These pumps are hard to find in the USA but were originally owned by Consumers Power Co. near Detroit, MI. They became surplus but needed in this African nation with older GE turbines moved there to deliver electric power.
Montana Dakota Utilities (MDU) has asked PAL to conduct a Fire Extinguisher (CO-2) test on three of its GE gas turbines: Two are in Glendive, MT and one is in Miles City, MT Also, they want to move the CO-2 system (bottles and trip mechanism) from the control cab on the MS5001N in Miles City to an adjacent metal building. There will be upgrades done to replace the trip mechanism with an upgraded model.
Gainesville (FL) Utilities wanted PAL to send an engineer to solve a vacuum problem on the lube oil system on a MS7001EA gas turbine. The demister system could not keep up with air leaks into the lube oil tank causing oil leaks. The engineer identified the nagging problem in about an hour associated with the seals on the atomizing air compressor. Other contributing sources of air were identified that included the hydraulic supply cover seal. At the next outage, a root cause analysis (RCA) will be conducted so that possible sources of air can be mitigated.