Steam turbine work on the international stage can have its challenges, but also its successes. Mechanical Dynamics & Analysis (MD&A) was contracted to inspect, analyze, and then straighten a Toshiba® ...

On April 3, 4:00 pm, 2007, the first China made 700 MW 26# turbo-generator rotor in the right bank power station of Three Gorges Project (TGP) was erected into the stator pit successfully by bridge ...

When most of today’s wind projects were developed, first costs were the focus; operations and maintenance (O&M) costs were largely unknown. Now, with hundreds of turbine models in operation—sometimes ...

Among maintenance outage quandaries power plant operators face is whether to send components off site for repair or have the work done on site. In instances where the job can be accomplished either ...

Energy giant Vattenfall wants to recycle and reuse the rotor blades from its wind turbines in the future. But what actually happens to the expensive composite parts ...

Sometime this year, the swept area of the world's largest wind turbine will grow by nearly 30 percent. Swept area describes the circular zone outlined by the tips of a turbine's turning rotor blades, ...

[Canadian Press, 16 October; globeandmail.com, 16 October] Crossing the Atlantic was no problem, but the harbour at St John, New Brunswick, proved trickier for two turbine rotors destined for the ...