UPGRADES & STEAM CYCLE CHANGES

Engineered Upgrades and Steam Cycle Changes Restore Your Turbine Generator to As-New Performance or Much Better

When your turbine generator was designed and manufactured it used the technologies and manufacturing processes most appropriate at that time.  The bladepath design, extraction and induction points, nozzle areas and component sizing were all optimized to the steam cycle and unit rating originally specified.

Quite often we find that an engineering evaluation of a specific turbine generator, using today's technologies and today's power plant operating conditions, can identify very cost-effective ways to upgrade the unit to increase it's output, improve it's efficiency, better match it to the cycle it operates in today or a combination of all of these improvements.

These are the kind of changes that can add greatly to the financial success and viability of your power plant.

These changes are made possible by the verification and introduction of new technologies in new steam turbines which can often become economical retrofits for existing steam turbines.  These technologies include:

Advanced Blade Designs for HP Turbine Section
Fully 3D Blade Airfoils for IP Section
Integral Shroud Blading for LP Section
Active Clearance Control Seals

Design evaluation of actual operating steam turbines has identified specific improvements which can result in reasonable financial payback times for the following example benefits:

Optimization for New Controlled Extraction Steam Flows
Capacity Increases of 2-3%
Efficiency Improvements of 5-6%
Combinations of 5-6% Efficiency and 10-12% Capacity Increase

We can work with you to do a technical and economic evaluation of what is possible with your steam turbine and its' current operating cycle.  Click below and let us know you are interested:

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