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Article: Measuring for reverse engineering
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- Turbomachinery International
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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TURBINE RETROFITS BY THIRD PARTIES ARE THE RAGE, BUT ROTOR MEASUREMENT IS A TRICKY PROPOSITION
Power plant operators continually face the need to cut fuel costs while also reducing emissions. A popular way to achieve this is to retrofit their turbines with components supplied by non-OEM providers - often at a lower cost than the original turbine supplier.
This is a trend not only in gas turbines but also in steam turbines, many of which arc custom-made. "For instance, the major steam turbine manufacturers are moving in a new direction, reverse engineering each others' turbine rotors," says Peter Tavis, a Quality Control Inspector for Edison ESI (Westminster, CA), a wholly owned subsidiary ...