Burners Many times, burners in utility boilers are set/adjusted by the OEM during commissioning to meet the original environmental and performance targets. Since then, normally no maintenance is done by the plant/ maintenance team. With time, performance of power plant naturally degrades like increase in leaks, vents, drain, more heat loss, performance loss etc. With …
Anybody who has been working in power plants or any manufacturing plant would have come across terms such as Preventive maintenance (like plan the outage based on fix time intervals), or Reactive maintenance (perform activity after failure occurs), or Predictive maintenance (perform only based on indicators). If you are among this group, most likely you …
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Since last 15 years, we have been assisting utility companies to manage their assets from operational and maintenance perspectives. Recently, we started to look at the global or in other words “the bigger” picture with the view to see how more effectively we can help the power and energy industry. While in this pursuit, we …
Anybody who has lived in rural parts of India or in any developing nation may have experienced long durations of power shortage, specially during summer hours. At least recent power shortage events in India would have brought the memory of those candle (or lantern) light dinners. Now, thanks to our huge experience of working in …
Many thermal power plants across the world are between 10-50 years old with an median average of about 30 years. Considering that no new plants are being built now a days, but still such plants are essential for continuous and reliable power supply, more attention should be paid to improve the efficiency and maintaining it. …
