For Westinghouse (Figure 1) and Allis-Chalmers combined high-pressure/intermediate-pressure (HP-IP) turbines, there are more design (and potential nondesign) leakages ...

Many U.S. power producers are stretching the useful lives of their existing power plants because of the favorable economics as compared to other alternatives. Environmental issues, licensing delays, ...

MD&A performed a Full-Service Steam Turbine Major outage, which included the HP/IP inspection and repairs on a 610MW GE® G2 steam turbine. While keeping tight to the schedule deadline, several of MD&A ...

Design changes, retrofit solutions and performance evaluation techniques enable steam turbine owners to keep their machines in proper running order and sustain high plant efficiency. Maintaining steam ...