Overview
Legacy facilities, such as thermal power plants, fill an essential grid stability function as utilities look to diversify their power generation fleet with renewable technologies. Older plants, considered stranded assets in finance, are required to maintain high availability, with limited operating budgets and reduced workforces. Intermittent duty cycles on equipment originally designed to run continuously means new challenges for wear debris and contamination in lubricated assets. Please join us for this webinar on the new reliability challenges encountered, and how one power generation utility has employed its onsite oil analysis tools to avoid unplanned downtime and improve the effectiveness of its predictive maintenance capability.
Key Takeaways
- Learn how a legacy site has unique reliability challenges
- Understand rotating equipment duty cycle changes and how they are detected in lubrication systems
- Streamline a mature program to reduce workload and detect problems in advance
- Review onsite oil analysis solutions
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Speakers
Daniel Walsh is currently the Director, Technical Sales Support/Commercial Product Strategy for AMETEK Spectro Scientific. Mr. Walsh is responsible for providing global oil analysis solutions for customers in the industrial, fleet and laboratory markets. Daniel has worked at Spectro Scientific in Sales, Application Engineering and Product Leader roles since 2010. Prior to this, he worked at BTS (Bently Nevada, as Technical Director and General Manager of the oil and fuel analysis laboratory. He began his career as a Metallurgical Test Engineer at Pratt & Whitney. He has presented numerous papers at leading industry conferences including Lubmat, EPRI, Noria, STLE and Pittcon, and he has patents in ferrous wear debris detection in industrial fluids. Mr. Walsh has a BS in Materials Science and Engineering from the University of Limerick and an MSc in Engineering Management from Tufts University. He also is a STLE Certified Lubrication Specialist.
Ray Garvey is an engineer and inventor named on more than 20 U.S. patents associated with oil analyzers, infrared thermography, machine monitoring, and composite structures. Ray has been an employee of Emerson Process Management for 22 years, and is known for his participation in the development of Emerson’s CSI 5100 and CSI 5200 Minilab analyzers. Ray received his BS degree from West Point and MS degree from the University of Tennessee. His professional certifications include Professional Engineer (PE), Certified Lubrication Specialist (CLS), and U.S. Army Engineer ( Lt. Col. retired). Ray worked for the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (five years active, 20 years reserve), U.S. DOE Uranium Gas Centrifuge Program (11 years), and is currently employed with Emerson Process Management.
Vanessa Jones has been a Supervising Chemist for MidAmerican Energy Neal Energy Center, with responsibility for water and oil laboratories, since 2013. In her role, she provides data to production and maintenance teams to enable the site to meet its grid supply needs. She has experience in quality control chemistry for production support in the food and beverage industry, and oil analysis experience with engine manufacturing. Jones holds chemistry and biology degrees from University of North Iowa, and is a ICML certified MLT-1 technician, as well as water treatment operator Iowa state certification.
