Backwashing the Closed Cycle Heat Exchanger

Backwashing the Closed Cycle Heat Exchanger

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...
Pre/Post Outage Thermal Performance Evaluation

Pre/Post Outage Thermal Performance Evaluation

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...
Maximo Barcoding: Where Has it Been All Our Lives?

Maximo Barcoding: Where Has it Been All Our Lives?

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...
The Dissolution of FRCC

The Dissolution of FRCC

By Daniel Jenkins, NERC Reliability Specialist As you know, on October 30, 2018, the Florida Reliability Coordinating Council, Inc. (FRCC), Board of Directors approved a timeline and plan to terminate its Amended and Restated Delegation Agreement with the North...