ENERGY-TECH • January 2012 At a power generating station in Florida, a severe electrical fault caused such extensive damage to a 40 MW gas turbine-driven generator that a complete replacement of the generator stator was required. An on-site spare generator core was available, but needed the faulted generator’s bearing support brackets to be installed to make [...]

The following situation occurred at a Municipal Power Plant. During a planned outage, the on-site team was utilizing a Rotalign Pro with Boralign to assess the position of the bearing bores after removal of the rotor on an Allis Chalmers power generation steam turbine. The results were varying far more than normal and the customer [...]