TurboCare's Engineering Center in Fitchburg, MA has extensive capabilities
in all disciplines of steam turbine design. With 300+ man-years of experience
with all brands of steam turbines, our experts can provide a wide range services
from solutions to your most complicated problem to the reconfiguration of you
machine to run in a new cycle. We can do it all when it comes to steam turbine
re-design and analysis. The following is only a short listing of all the solutions
and services provided by TurboCare's Fitchburg Engineering Center.
Engineering Center Capabilities
- Turbine Modernizations, Upgrades and Re-rates
- Blade Failure Analysis & Redesign
- Finite Element Stress & Heat Transfer Analysis
- Mechanical & Thermodynamic Design
- Rotor Dynamic Analysis
- Weld Repair Technology
- Rapid Failure Analysis and Assessment
Types of Turbine Re-Rates TurboCare Can Perform:
- Reliability Upgrades
- Efficiency Upgrades
- Plant and Process Changes
- Change of Use
- Life Extension Components
- Modern Steam Path Components
- Solid Vs. Built Up Rotor
- Modern Digital Turbine and Generator Control Systems
- Turbine Supervisory Instrumentation
- Bucket and Nozzle Coatings
- Retractable Packing
- Journal and Thrust Bearing Upgrades
- Analysis and Redesign of Failed Components
- High Efficiency Nozzle and 3D Bucket Profiles
- Retractable Brush Seals
- Modern Valves Profiles
- Steampath Degradation Recovery
- Steampath Optimization
- Uprating for More Power/Flow
- De-rating for More Power at Lower than Design Flows
- Speed/Power Changes
- PRV Elimination/Reduction
- Redesign for New Process Conditions
- New Throttle Conditions
- New Extraction/Admission Conditions
- New Exhaust Conditions
- Condensing to Non-Condensing Conversions
- Remove/Add Controlled or Uncontrolled Extractions/Admissions
- Reapplication Studies
- Used Equipment Supplier