The companies listed on this page are CTOTF 2009 Champions who have signed up thus far. These are the OEMs, vendors, and suppliers who have demonstrated their commitment to ensuring that the CTOTF not only continues but flourishes.

They are listed in alphabetical order, with their designated points of contact.  Clicking on the company logo will bring you to their web site.  Special Super Champion information will be updated on the "Focus-On..." page on this site.  Be sure to check it out.

Advanced Turbine Support, Inc.

3946 SW 89th Drive
Gainesville, FL 32608

GAS TURBINE INSPECTION CAPABILITY BREAKTHROUGH

1st In-situ Application of UT NDE Detects  GE 7FA Dovetail Blade Cracking

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Advanced Turbine Support offers a diversified portfolio of Non-Destructive Evaluation (NDE) and Non-Destructive Testing (NDT) methods. We provide all of the basic surface inspection services you expect, plus a complete internal advanced borescope inspection providing the detailed data you need for critical decisions.

WE WILL BEAT ANY COMPETITIVE U.S. INSPECTION PRICING BY 10%!

We are a cutting edge inspection company that develops and offers inspection services that you can't get anywhere else. We have twelve highly skilled inspectors available to meet your inspection needs. Our inspectors include: Rod Shidler, Rick Ginder, Robert Burkhart, Mark Richards, Heath Roy, Dustin Irlbeck, Brett Fuller, Dave Robbins, Luis Hernandez, Craig Recor, Rob Boyer and Mike Hoogsteden.

These include:

• Eddy Current Inspections of the Frame 5, Frame 7EA and 7FA S-0, S-1, S-2 stator vanes to detect cracking that has lead to stator vane failures on numerous gas turbines.

• R-0 and R-1 phased array ultrasonics on the 7FA rotor blades to detect cracking on the P-Cut and Standard Compressor Blades. We have identified cracked standard R-0 blades on 30% of the units inspected.

• R-1 Eddy Current Inspections to detect cracking at the blade platforms.

• Remote Blending of the R-1 blades (7FA) and R-2 blades (7EA) to remove cracks and impact damage without case removal.

• Remote shim removal and or grinding on the S-0 to S-2 compressor shims per TIL 1562.

Our goal is to provide you with a thorough, unbiased, condition assessment of your combustion turbines. In addition to the semi-annual or annual borescope inspections, our services have been utilized for baseline inspections, outage planning, pre-commissioning, post-overhaul, unit troubleshooting and warranty inspections.

Our inspectors have been inspecting combustion turbines for utilities since 1993. We carry American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) TC-1A Certifications in visual weld inspection, magnetic particle (MT), and dye penetrant testing (PT). Our staff includes two ASNT Level II and III Eddy Current and Ultrasonic Inspectors capable of meeting all of the NDE requirements for inspecting General Electric and Westinghouse Gas Turbines.

We have extensive borescope inspection experience inspecting the following combustion turbines: GE Frame 5's, 6&6B's, 7B's, 7EA's, 7FA's, LM6000's, Pratt and Whitney FT-4 and FT-8, Westinghouse 191's, 251's, 301's, 501AA's, 501B's, 501F's, D5A's and V84.3’s.

Our client list includes: American Electric Power, AES, Ameren, Calpine, Con Ed, Constellation, CSW, Dominion Energy, Duke Energy,Gainesville Regional Utilities, Progress Energy, SRP, TVA, Tenaska and others.

Braden Manufacturing, LLC

Braden Manufacturing leads the power generation industry in the design, manufacture, and installation of auxiliary equipment for gas turbines. Braden provides exhaust systems, inlet systems, filter houses and turbine enclosures to gas turbine manufacturers and end users. With hundreds of systems in service, Braden has earned an international reputation for unparalleled quality and customer service.

Each Braden system is designed by the in-house engineering department using finite element modeling techniques for the structural components as well as components with thermal stress. Braden then fabricates the components to the customer specifications. Some projects or components are fabricated at the Braden home office in Tulsa, Oklahoma, while other projects or components are fabricated at various other locations throughout the world.

Braden is able to provide systems entirely fabricated in the USA, but Braden can also meet virtually any requirement for local fabrication in other parts of the world.

Combustion Parts, Inc.

P.O. Box 721060

San Diego, CA 92172

Combustion Parts Inc., (CPI) provides genuinely  reverse engineered parts for your GE and

Siemens/Westinghouse turbines from manufacturers who have produced quality parts for the OEMs for years.

CPI Offers:

Combustion Parts from Original Manufacturers

CPI's sources produce the parts that are in your turbine today. These are highly skilled manufacturing facilities, staffed with years of power generation parts expertise. Their quality systems meet the most stringent certification requirements.

Comprehensive reverse engineering

CPI's process includes patent and market research, dimensional and metallurgical analysis of sample parts, and testing results with industry experts. We bring quality parts to market quickly, while ensuring that the form, fit, and function meet our gas turbine customers' needs and expectations.

Short-cycle parts availability

CPI maintains a stock of nearly-complete parts on the shelf to enable short lead times, but maintain flexibility to our customers' unique needs.

Program management directly integrated with our manufacturers

CPI's onsite surveillance on pre-production, qualification, scheduling, and production activities allows CPI to manage programs proactively and respond immediately to customer requests and questions.

Donaldson Company, Inc.

Gas Turbine Systems
P. O. Box 1299 MS 445
Minneapolis, MN 55440-1299

Donaldson Company, Inc. is a worldwide provider of innovative air inlet filtration and inlet silencers for combustion turbines, generators, and other rotating equipment.

Global Controls

6490 Hazeltine National Drive, Suite #110

Orlando, FL 32822

Global Controls, provides highly skilled on-site support engineers and products for turbien control system operations, startups, upgrades modifications and more.

We serve as your full-service, personal turbine control expert, whether applying new technology to existing turbines and equipment, or accurately diagnosing and effectively improving system performance.

Gas Turbine Efficiency

300 Sunport Lane

Orlando, FL 32809

Gas Turbine Efficiency (GTE) has a long and successful history of supplying engineered solutions to leading global companies in the power generation industry. GTE and its subsidiary companies have shipped thousands of systems to more than 500+ sites around the world. We are approved as an integrator by some of the world’s largest and most reputable companies. Our quality systems exceed the requirements of most process industries.

GTE has developed standard products specifically to optimize assets, improve performance, reliability and availability, and extend the parts life of a gas turbine. These systems have been approved and implemented into fleets of turbines around the globe.

GTE works with OEMs, EPCs, O&M companies and individual power generation users to design and fabricate new systems as well as the modernization and upgrades of existing facilities.

Most of the auxiliaries and balance of plant equipment systems are made up of fluid control, instrument and electrical components, and are integrated into a stand-alone functional system. Our ability to source, engineer, and construct these components from our in-house distribution division continues to afford us a competitive advantage.

HY-PRO Filtration

12955 Ford Drive

Fishers, IN 46038

Hy-Pro manufactures a wide range of filtration products for hydraulic and lubrication systems featuring DFE rated filter element upgrades.  Varnish removal and prevention systems, non-sparking low energy lube filter elements, EHC off-line and pressure filters, vacuum dehydration and coalesce skids, gearbox filtration and mobile filter carts.  Hy-Pro has fluid contamination under control with innovative products, support and solutions.

Leading Edge Turbine Technologies, LTD.

20120 East Hardy Road

Houston, Texas 77073

Leading Edge Turbine Technologies provides the following services:

•   Steam Turbine Stationary Repairs,
•   Gas Turbine Stationary Component Repairs and
•   Blade and Bucket Repairs

Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas

2287 Premier Row

Orlando, FL 32809

Today, Mitsubishi Power Systems Americas (MPSA) is building on the tradition of Mitsubishi’s legendary, best-in-class F-Series turbines with the introduction of its groundbreaking, first-in-class G-Series technology. With its next-generation H-Series already in testing – and with an expanding line of proven renewable energy technologies.

MPS is poised to become the Americas’ provider-of-choice for versatile, economical and dependable power generation solutions.

NAES Corporation

1180 NW Maple Street, Suite 200

Issaquah, WA 98027

NAES provides comprehensive field maintenance for on-site inspection and overhauls of large rotating equipment including:

•  Combustion Turbines (Combustion, Hot Gas Path, Major Inspections

•  Steam Turbines (Minor and Major Inspections)

•  Generators

•  Centrifugal & Axial Compressors

•  Blowers & Pumps

•  Gear Drives

•  Control Systems

•  Valves

In addition, NAES Turbine Services provides a broad range of services on large rotating equipment including:

•  Complete on-site inspection/overhaul services

•  Equipment repair and refurbishment

•  Shop repair and machining

•  Borescope inspections

•  Spare parts sourcing and inventory optimization

•  Predictive maintenance program

•  Vibration analysis

•  Nozzles and Diaphragms

•  On-Site Repairs

•  Spill Strip Replacement

•  Erosion Repairs

NAES Turbine Services offers the latest state-of-the-art planning, scheduling, predictive maintenance and vibration analysis systems programs designed to minimize costly equipment downtime and lost production.

NAES Turbine Services also provides repair services in a 35,000 square foot shop located in Houston which contains machine tools, welding equipment, overhead cranes, work tables, floor laydown space, sandblast and NDE facilities. Our personnel are well versed in all types and brands of mechanical equipment including small turbines, gearboxes, pumps, fans, blowers and specialty equipment.

Our supervisors have earned the reputation for professionalism, leadership and reliability. We achieve the highest levels of safety, quality and productivity from highly skilled turbine mechanics.

We have inspected and overhauled more than 500 gas or steam turbine generators both domestically and in Central and South America. Our experience is your assurance that we will exceed your objectives.

Pratt & Whitney Power Systems

400 Main St. M/S 191-13
East Hartford, CT 06108

•  The flexible and economical FT8^® gas turbine is a derivative of the JT8D-200, one of the most successful flight engines in aviation history.
•  The SWIFTPAC^® gas turbine package approach changes the way power plants are delivered and installed. Available in 30 or 60 MW packages.
•  The MOBILEPAC^® gas turbine package is a true mobile trailer mounted unit providing 25 MW of power generating capability for emergency and stand-by applications.

For heavy-duty frame Industrial Gas Turbines (IGT) manufactured by other major OEMs, PWPS provides aftermarket parts, coatings, repairs and field services.

•  PWPS redesigned aftermarket parts offer improved durability utilizing superior design techniques
•  Advanced repairs offered by PWPS increase the life of IGT aftermarket parts and save the customer operating costs.

PWPS PRODUCTS

•  No maintenance penalty for number of starts.
•  Compact modular designs offering easier, faster and lower installation costs.
•  High reliability and availability.
•  High base load and part load efficiency.
•  Faster start time.
•  Excellent hot weather performance without air inlet conditioning.

IGT Advanced Parts:  PWPS offers alternative parts with improved design for use in 6B, 6FA, 7EA, 7FA and 7FA+e heavy-duty industrial gas turbines. By utilizing unique Pratt & Whitney IGT alloys and coatings, customers can benefit from enhanced reliability and advanced technology. 

PWPS SERVICES

IGT Advanced Repairs:  PWPS performs advanced repairs on hot section components for heavy-duty industrial gas turbine models.  What the OEM may consider scrap, PWPS has the ability to repair and offer extended part life to gas turbine users.  The PWPS IGT Repair Center of Excellence is located in San Antonio, Texas.

IGT Advanced Coatings:  PWPS offers thermal barrier, ceramic and metallic abradable and hardface coatings for land-based gas turbines.  These applications provide for high temperature protection, air sealing and wear functions.  PWPS is an industry leader in thermal barrier coating life and oxidization protection.

Long-term Maintenance Offering:  In addition to providing an alternative for new parts supply and repair in the heavy-duty industrial gas turbine market, PWPS offers flexible long-term arrangements that are specifically tailored to meet each customers unique requirements.

Power Support, Inc.
4503 Spring Cypress Rd., Suite C-9
Spring, TX 77388

Power Support, Inc. is celebrating our 16 year anniversary this year. Formed in 1991 by Terri Elliot, Power Support, Inc. has grown into a global supplier and service company for the Turbomachinery Parts Industry. We are a service organization that supplies spare parts and services for the turbomachinery industry. We work with both new, service run, and refurbished parts for gas and steam turbines. Here at Power Support, Inc. we believe in some of the traditional theories of business:

•  Do it right the first time.

•  The customer always comes first.

•  Cost and delivery are important.

Our knowledgeable employees are always available and our strong product support continues even after the sale. We are dedicated to your satisfaction and want to be your alternative supplier. You can depend on us, our quality and reliability. At Power Support, Inc., you get priority service. And you can take our word on that.

Services:

•  Onsite Stream Diaphragm Repairs,

•  Onsite Erosion Shield Replacement,

•  Onsite Repair Recommendations,

•  Vendor validation of repairs and qualification,

•  Component Inspection, Evaluation and Repair.

Inventory:

•  Hot Gas Path components,

•  Combustion gas and steam turbine components,

•  We purchase excess inventory,

•  We will work with you on a consignment basis,

•  We can supply new parts for the repair industry

Siemens Energy Inc.

Siemens Energy, Inc. designs, provides installation, and upgrade of gas and steam turbines and generators including supply of new components and systems and a wide range of outage and overhaul services.

Siemens Energy, Inc. is one of the premier companies in the international power generation sector providing leading-edge power and energy solutions. It develops and builds fossil fuel power plants and power-generating components as well as wind turbines, turbines for use as mechanical drives and compressors for industrial applications. Instrumentation and control systems, fuel cell technology and extensive services round out the portfolio. Excellent customer service with the right quality to increase customer benefit is at the center of our business.

Wood Group

Gas Turbine Services
15600 JFK Blvd., Ste 500
Houston, TX 77032

"Wood Group is a leading international energy services company, employing 20,000 people and operating from bases in 44 countries."

Wood Group Gas Turbine Services is a leading independent provider of maintenance, repair and overhaul services for:

•  Light Industrial, Areo-derivative and Heavy Industrial Gas Turbines

•  Steam Turbines

•  Generators and Motors

•  Controls

•  Pumps

•  Compressors

•  Power Turbines and other High Speed Rotating Equipment

•  Industrial and Aero Gas Turbine Accessories and Components

Date last updated: 9/02/2010

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