Steam Turbine & Other Consulting Services

Core Consulting Services

🔬 Acceptance & Performance Testing Area

ASME-Compliant High-Accuracy Testing

  • Contractual performance compliance
  • Unit operating conditions / validation
  • Computations using calibrated instruments
  • Acceptance testing procedural assistance

Insure your new or refurbished units meet contractual specifications.

⚡ Power & Efficiency Loss Analysis Area

Performance Degradation Evaluation

  • Specific MW and efficiency loss identification
  • Root cause analysis of performance issues
  • Detailed outage work recommendations
  • Cost-benefit analysis of performance recovery

Get targeted recommendations for your next major outage.

📋 Contractual Guarantee Support Area

Technical Expertise for Performance Agreements

  • Guarantee specification development
  • Test plan preparation and evaluation
  • Guarantee reduction and analysis
  • Contractual interpretation support

Protect your interests with technically sound agreements.

⚙️ PEPSE™ Modeling & Analysis

System Performance Evaluation

  • Equipment parameter change impact studies
  • Stream property analysis throughout cycle
  • Mass and energy balance evaluations
  • System-wide efficiency optimization


PEPSE™ - Performance Evaluation of Power System Efficiency (Scientech/Halliburton-NUS).

🚨 Urgent Problem Response

Worldwide Technical Support

  • Response to critical performance issues
  • Data evaluation and preliminary assessment
  • Action plan development
  • Critical schedule determination

When time matters, get expert attention immediately.

🎓 Quality Support

Technical Assistance

  • Assist operator awareness.
  • Improve performance oversight.

Build better operator performance standards.

Specialized Consulting Areas

🏭 Plant Balance Studies

Complete thermodynamic cycle analysis including mass and energy balances, equipment interactions, and system evaluations.  Special modification impacts.

🔧 Steam Path Audits

Detailed evaluation of steam path performance including stage efficiency analysis, leakage identification, and optimization recommendations.

(Currently Under Review)

⏱️ Outage Optimization

Analysis of optimal timing between major outages considering fuel costs, performance degradation, and economic factors.

(Currently Under Review)

📊 Energy Audits

Energy consumption analysis with specific recommendations for efficiency improvements and cost reductions.

🔍 Equipment Troubleshooting

Systematic approach to identifying and resolving complex equipment performance issues.

📈 Management Reporting

Executive-level performance reports with clear actionable insights for management decision-making.

Other Consulting Areas - Special Attention

🏭 Plant - General Studies

  • Assistance to achieve set goals etc.
  • General data processing.

🔧 Audits  - Management

  • General collection/organization of data and preparation for plant reporting
  • Summaries and data processing

⏱️ "What - If" Special Studies

  • Data Analysismanageddd
  • Executive Summary
  • Report Summarizations

📊 Modifications

  • System influence
  • Operational changes

🔍 Equipment Studies

  • Equipment performance analysis
  • Operational change impacts
  • Construction and analysis using equipment performance curves
  • Executive Summary
  • Reports

📈 Managerial & Other Data

- Engineering Assistance -

  • Annual Report Quality Processing 
  • Special Plots (Sigma) & Data Analysis
  • Autocad

One Example of Processing

1

Initial Assessment

Client describes needs. Requirements identified.  Consultant submits pro-forma invoice (PVI) breakdown for agreement and client signature. (Schedules)

2

Implementation

Project Implementation according to PVI details-schedules-agreements.


3

Findings-Initial Report

Issues/concerns - Submittal of preliminary report for feedback.

4

Final Report

Provide final report to include executive summary and Initial Report Feedback. Further issues/concerns that were not addressed in initial report.