GE has a suite of customizable solutions to improve the reliability of the HP/IP module of your steam turbine. The Advanced Steam Path may be an attractive option that addresses multiple reliability concerns while providing improved performance. When faced with lengthy repairs, ASP can also significantly reduce outage scope and duration.
GE’s Next Gen ST Valves provide our customers with replacement options for valves. Hardware solutions can enable minor outage interval extensions from 3 to 6 factored years. Advanced sensors and analytics are applied to move from reactive to proactive/predictive health monitoring.
Opflex Steam Turbine Agility is a comprehensive system solution to improve start times of combined cycle plants. It includes a combination of controls upgrades with expert plant-level operational analysis and recommendations to deliver significant improvements in combined cycle start performance.
The shell warming system delivers a significant reduction in start times and rub induced vibration events while enabling longer sustained HP/IP section efficiencies. The offering consists of a heating blanket system, junction boxes, cabling, thermocouples, and a stand-alone control system. As a separate customer option, the system can also be connected to plant DCS for all the automated control functions in replacement of stand-alone control system. This integration will typically be performed by the customer with instructions provided by the thermal blanket system supplier.
The power generation industry is rapidly changing, and turbines originally manufactured for base-load operation are now required to respond quickly to grid demands. The modern requirements for steam turbine power plants (including combined-cycle installations) are faster and more frequent start-ups, combined with longer phases of low load operation (LLO).
Our solution for a new energy environment GE has developed a modern rotor stress controller called Turbomax* 7+, available for units running older versions of Turbomax* that is built around the following modules:
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