Contractor Safety
Need an auditable, standardized OSHA safety orientation for your utility contractors? One that provides awareness-level training and a secure database for records retention and look-up? Ready to eliminate redundant training as your mobile contractor workforce moves from site to site? As a utility owner, you understand the challenges of verifying contractor safety. You need an effective and cost-efficient way to ensure that your workforce is safety-ready before stepping on property. You need assurance that a consistent and timely message about the value of safety is reaching every worker.
PowerSafe Generation™ delivers what you’re seeking. We heard you say, “Our contractors’ safety matters too!” So, we brought together a representative group of utility owners and contractors to create PowerSafe Generation to meet your specific contractor safety awareness level orientation needs. Accessed through the web, or delivered by a third party, PowerSafe provides up-to-date training to your contractors’ employees. With PowerSafe, you know that your contractors have been trained to the same standard.
Partnership to Increase Operations and Maintenance Capabilities
Wamar International, Inc., a U.S. corporation founded in 1983 with its headquarters located in Simi Valley, California, and
Primesouth, with its headquarters in Columbia, South Carolina, have merged their individual capabilities through Wamar International acquiring controlling interest of Primesouth. This new alliance will allow the two companies to serve their customer base even better by being able to now offer an extensive spectrum of services under one roof.
Wamar International’s Energy Division provides overhaul, repair, and maintenance services for industrial gas turbines of all sizes, supplying complete turnkey solutions for gas turbine operated power plants and offering major overhaul and repair services for steam turbines and facilities. Primesouth has 20 years experience in providing third-party operations and maintenance services to power, ethanol, biodiesel, and industrial facilities throughout the U.S. and internationally. Primesouth Trade Services, a Primesouth subsidiary, stands ready to provide short- and long-term construction and maintenance labor support specializing in welders, pipe fitters, millwrights, and other industrial construction trades, as well as rapid response teams providing precision millwrights, certified boilermakers, welders, and pipe fitters.
Primesouth’s maintenance and service division offers consulting in the field of preventive, predictive and proactive maintenance, including thermography, lube oil sampling, borescopic inspection, and vibration analysis.
High-Voltage Services
ProEnergy Services recently launched a new division to provide high-voltage services to power generation customers. This new service further expands the company’s single source capabilities, offering innovative power solutions to major energy providers throughout the world. ProEnergy’s High Voltage division gives customers the competitive advantage of speed and technical knowledge through its services related to construction, testing, maintenance, and training of high-voltage substations.
The company’s services include:
• Assembly and installation and commissioning of HV equipment
• Project management for substations and HV services
• Fault analysis
• Maintenance plans, RCM and preventative maintenance
• Custom training programs for operators and maintenance crews
• Infrared inspections
ProEnergy is an integrated service provider that delivers safe, reliable solutions to clients throughout the world. ProEnergy provides a variety of professional services, parts, and equipment to the energy industry. The company has U.S. offices in Sedalia, Mo.; Atlanta; Tulsa; and Houston. Overseas locations are in Argentina, Mexico, Venezuela, Pakistan, Panama, and Ghana.
QBoiler Tubes Scanner
Due to the nature of power boilers, accessibility for boiler tube butt weld examinations is limited. With the MetaPhase Helix scanner,
Q.Pro Technical Services is able to quickly and efficiently scan the total circumference of boiler tube butt welds, providing a higher quality examination with instant results. The compact design of the Helix scanner also allows for access in all areas of the boiler with the capability to examine all ranges of thicknesses and diameters.
Due to the close proximity of crafts working simultaneously in the unit, radiography is not a desirable option for these examinations, as it can cause interruptions in adjacent work activities. MetaPhase involves no radioactive materials or devices, enabling production welding teams to work side by side with the inspection crews. Applications for the Helix scanner include: reheat and superheat sections, header replacements, economizer overhauls, and water wall tubes.
RLogic Tree Knowledge Management Templates
Reliability Center, Inc., announced the availability of their exclusive PROACT® Logic Tree Knowledge Management Templates™ to their suite of PROACT® software products. The templates, developed and owned by Reliability Center, Inc. (RCI), are now available for use in the Root Cause Analysis module. The PROACT Logic Tree Knowledge Management Templates are an aggregation of experience garnered from more than 800 field investigations. The analyses have been thoroughly reviewed and their results compiled to form this unique, single RCA knowledge base.
Analysts can now utilize RCI’s templates, providing a comprehensive knowledge base that can be leveraged to accelerate analysis activities. As RCA teams progress through their analyses related to a particular failure, they can now review additional possibilities made available with the PROACT Logic Tree Knowledge Management Templates. These templates provide analysts with greater visibility into something their team could have missed and can also incorporate previous findings into the current analysis to ensure that appropriate corrective actions are identified.
Engineered Boiler Systems
RENTECH Boiler Systems is an international provider of high-quality, engineered boiler systems with headquarters in Abilene, Texas. RENTECH designs and manufactures its products in Abilene in a state-of-the-art plant spanning nearly 40 acres. We offer excellent technical solutions to the unique needs of the heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) with a focus on custom engineered products. You can depend on RENTECH boilers for reliable performance because of their quality and unique application to the needs of each customer.
We specialize in, and are the largest supplier of HRSGs for today’s high-efficiency gas turbines that operate in the 3- to 40-MW size range. Our expertise in high-fired applications incorporates full optimization of the duct-burner performance while utilizing catalytic oxidation and SCR for control of emissions for the entire system. Our approach to achieving lower emissions starts with optimization of the HRSG design. Coupled with RENTECH’s knowledge of low emissions burner and in-house catalytic reduction technologies, we are capable of supplying a system that fully complies with all performance criteria and is backed by a single-source emissions guarantee.
Pipe and Cable Utility Locator
With the
RIDGID® SeekTech® SR-60 pipe and cable utility locator users can do fast, easy, and accurate locates to protect infrastructure and underground assets. The innovative, easy-to-read display visually maps the signal so users can constantly view the changes in the line direction, depth, and signal strength in real time, increasing efficiency and confidence when on the job site. The unique passive search mode on the SR-60 can be used to search all broadband passive frequencies at once, allowing for easy identification of known and unknown power lines or other metallic lines in the target area.
It is the only utility locator with the capability to receive the full range of locatable frequencies of 10 Hz to 490 kHz. Users can tune the frequency 1 Hz at a time, allowing the SR-60 to be used with any pre-set frequency transmitter or proprietary frequency. RIDGID locators raise the standard in locating equipment. The SR-60 locator uses multi-directional antennas and state-of-the-art processing to provide users with the information they need, when they need it, to effectively and easily locate underground utilities.
Construction Trades Contractor
We here at
RMF Nooter strive for continuous improvement through education and experience to better serve our clients and their needs in a positive work environment. We work hard through planning and scheduling to eliminate problems associated with projects of all sizes and structure. Our supervisors aren’t just handed a plan; they help build it. With our multi-crafted talent pool of supervision in boilermakers, pipefitters, millwrights, electricians, and iron workers, we not only have the experience and the technical know-how to do the projects but also utilize trained personnel from the local union halls in the areas in which we work.
We promise to provide our customers the best workmanship available and deliver uncompromising quality in a timely fashion. Our goal is not to meet schedules but to beat them. Our vision is simple and that is “To be our customers’ preferred choice in all the markets we serve.” Our safety department prides itself with safety not being a goal as much as it is a way of life. We boast an EMR of less than .70 since inception.
Applied Computational Modeling
RMT’s SmartBurn® group delivers more power and more profit to its power producing clients. We do this by applying a series of products and services emanating from our core capability of Applied Computational Modeling (ACM), an advanced form of CFD modeling. ACM allows us to see into the boiler in a non-invasive way, predict its performance under varying conditions, and consider multiple performance parameters to bring sound financial balance to production and emissions.
Our products and services range from testing, tuning, assessments, and evaluations to physical modifications to the boiler, including RRI, SNCR, OFA, burners, tips, and nozzles. After a physical change, we also test, tune, and commission the new configuration for optimal performance. To ensure sustainable results, we provide training for operators. Our SmartBurn solutions can provide SCR-like performance without the large capital expenditures, the lost output, and monthly operational expenses associated with SCRs. This reduces the risk for clients and allows them to reach their profit objectives more easily. RMT is a proud sponsor of ELECTRIC POWER 2009.
Machinery Laser Alignment
ROTALIGN Ultra now features a larger full-color TFT display readable in sunlight with a faster processor, new user interface and enhanced graphics. As always, achieve alignment results in three easy steps: dimensions, measure, results. Enjoy wireless communication; standard, vector, and user-editable tolerances;, Soft Foot Wizard; standard deviation, and much more.
SAdvanced Elemental Analyzers
SABIA, Inc. the leader in advanced elemental analysis, announced the launch of the SABIA X1 Series—a more compact line of on-belt elemental analyzers and the most recent addition to the SABIA analyzer family. The SABIA X1 Coal Analyzer utilizes PGNA technology and is designed to provide the user with extremely accurate, real-time elemental analysis of a moving stream of coal: run-of-mine, stockpile, or finished product. The SABIA X1 brings improved levels of performance to coal applications and helps the customer eliminate material uncertainty and streamline the decision-making process. Like its predecessor, the analyzer is easy to install as it mounts onto existing conveyor structures without modifications. Analysis results can be accessed in real time from any web browser.
SABIA, Inc. is a privately held firm established in 2000 specializing in materials analysis, and the associated control and quality assurance of industrial processes. SABIA elemental PGNA analyzers, full line of nuclear analyzer services, and software options provide complete solutions for the coal, coal-fired power, cement, and mining industries.
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