2024 PSM ASSET MANAGERS CONFERENCE: HRSGs
Advanced GTs / By Team CCJ
This is the second segment of CCJ’s three-part report on PSM’s 2024 Asset Management Conference, conducted at the Westin Beach Resort in Fort Lauderdale, Fla, January 29-February 1. The first segment was published earlier this year, the third installment will appear in CCJ later this year.
The focus here is fourfold:
- FlameSheet™ keeps getting better.
- Benefits of additive manufacturing (AM) in the production of R1 vanes.
- Technical presentations by industry partners on (1) generator field rewinds, (2) impacts of GT upgrades on heat-recovery steam generators (HRSGs), (3) exhaust-frame mods and improvements.
- Shop tour at the Jupiter center of excellence.
Vogt: Don’t neglect the HRSG when evaluating GT upgrades
The gas turbine is part of a combined-cycle system and so the PSM Asset Manager’s Conference, part of the company’s global “Retrofit Revolution,” also included a presentation by Vogt Power International, “GT Upgrade/Low-Load Considerations for HRSG—Hydrogen Firing.” Most of the content mirrors the article elsewhere in the recent fracture article by Vignesh Bala, “Gas-Turbine Upgrades and their Impacts on HRSGs.”
The slides at the PSM AMC addressed non-thermal HRSG impacts (liners, baffles, flow distribution, catalyst, duct burner), as well as thermal impacts on pressure parts, tube/pipe velocities, drum/steam-water circulation system, attemperator, catalyst, safety relief valves, control valves, and I&C.
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