by Hugo Ordoñez Ruiz and Henry Barrios García – Plant Manager and Plant Engineer, Nuevo Pemex Cogeneration Facility The Challenge The Nuevo Pemex cogeneration facility, located in the State of Tabasco, Mexico, is equipped with two GEMS7001FA combustion turbines, each...
by Hugo Ordoñez Ruiz, Henry Barrios García and Ernesto Hernández Peña – Nuevo Pemex, Tabasco, Mexico The Challenge We wanted to find a way to reliably perform battery discharge-testing as stipulated by the IEEE as wellas NERC standard PRC-005-02 at the recommended...
Backwashing the Closed Cycle Heat Exchangerby Jorge Esparza – Plant Manager, Leonel Rosas – Production Director,and Erasmo Casados – Operations Manager, Tuxpan II & V, Veracruz, Mexico The ChallengeIn the MHI´s operating procedures of the plant, they provide to...
Kimberly Greene and Megan Matthews are presenting at Maximo World on Thursday, August 8 at 10 AM. The conference takes place from August 6-8, in Orlando Florida. To register click Here.
Pre/Post Outage Thermal Performance Evaluation by Sanjeev Jolly, P.E. – Senior Engineer, Engineering Services NAES has developed pre/post outage thermal performance guidelines to assist plants in quantifying changes in combustion turbine (CT) performance because of...
by Megan Matthews, Project Engineer, CMMS Services at NAES Corporation Every plant staff I visit has a list of improvements they want to see in their CMMS system. For most of them, barcode scanning for inventory ranks in their top five. The promises of barcode...
