by Mark Rabuano – Manager, NERC Services, NAES Corporation In late August, NAES hosted its fifth NERC Conference in Seattle. Our theme this year, ‘Sustaining Reliability: Balancing Operations and Compliance,’ was particularly salient for NAES, given its role as...
by Pamela Berner – Director, NAES Environmental Services When an agency conducts an inspection, an owner initiates an audit or an incident attracts attention to our operations, it sets wheels in motion. A notice of noncompliance or other negative action drives a...
by Megan Matthews – Project Manager, CMMS Services, NAES Corporation Most of you have chosen to use a computerized maintenance management system (CMMS) system to track your work orders, purchasing and inventory. Now that you’ve invested time and money in your...
by Fred Buckingham, P.E. – Principal Consultant, Engineering Services, NAES Corporation Modern combustion turbine (CT) generators are required to meet several competing operational objectives: stringent emissions standards, high efficiency requirements,...
by Andrew Markle – Senior Engineering, Engineering Services, NAES Corporation In early 2016, a cogeneration plant in the Las Vegas area faced an uncertain future: its steam host had changed processes and would no longer require steam, putting the facility in...
by Sanjeev Jolly, P.E. – Senior Engineer, Engineering Services, NAES Corporation A number of conditions can cause fouling in a heat recovery steam generator (HRSG): deposits plugging the finned tubes; sulfur in the fuel reacting with ammonia used for NOx...
