Our Capabilities
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    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
Examples of Reliability Upgrades:
  • 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
   Examples of Efficiency Upgrades:
  • High Efficiency Nozzle and 3D Bucket Profiles
  • Retractable Brush Seals
  • Modern Valves Profiles
  • Steampath Degradation Recovery
  • Steampath Optimization
Examples of Plant and Process Changes:
  • 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
Examples of Change of Use:
  • Condensing to Non-Condensing Conversions
  • Remove/Add Controlled or Uncontrolled Extractions/Admissions
  • Reapplication Studies
  • Used Equipment Supplier