by Beth Davis, NERC Reliability Specialist NERC provides an extensive Glossary of Terms on its website to us help understand and effectively implement the mandatory Reliability Standards. However, the Glossary does not always address oft-used acronyms encountered...
Internal Controls: Or, How toStay Off the NERC Hot Seatby Leland McMillan – NERC Reliability Specialist In accordance with NERC’s FERC-approved Reliability Assurance Initiative (RAI), regional entities are focusing more on ensuring compliance and reliability...
Failed Tubing and Clamping Assemblies Can Lead to Forced Outages…or Worse by Dave Righthouse – Senior Project Engineer, Plant Operations A recent spate of tubing clamp and grommet failures have made the industry news. While they don’t sound very menacing, they...
How to Complete a Successful O&M Assessment in a Developing Country: Part 2 by Andrew Markle, PE and Sanjeev Jolly, PE – Senior Engineers, NAES Engineering Services Part 1 of this article, which appeared in the last issue of Technically Speaking, describes the...
CMMS Failure Codes: Two Schools of Thought by Megan Matthews – Project Engineer, CMMS Services One of the most common questions we get from plants, both new and well-established ones, is how to set up failure codes – or why to set them up, or how to use the...
Inlet Air Cooling Improves Gas Turbine Performance by Sanjeev Jolly, PE – Senior Engineer, Engineering Services An inlet air cooling (IAC) system offers one of the most cost-effective ways to improve gas turbine (GT) performance – especially during the peak hours of...