Mobile Backup Battery Bank Streamlines Discharge-Testing

Mobile Backup Battery Bank Streamlines Discharge-Testing

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 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...