Turbine Cycle Performance Analysis
William C. Kettenacker, Scientech, a business of Curtiss-Wright Flow Control Company, "Evaluating an HP/IP Turbine Replacement," EPRI Heat Rate Conference 2009.
Jay Favinger, Nebraska Public Power District, "Using PEPSE to Evaluate a High Pressure Turbine Retrofit Options” (54 KB) 2007 Symposium: Managing and Improving Plant Performance, Clearwater Beach, FL, August 22-24, 2007.
Ray Foster, Pacific Gas & Electric, "Modeling & Testing Low Pressure Turbine Replacements at DCPP," (37 KB) User's Group Meeting, Minneapolis, MN, August 10-12, 2006
William A. Eberly, Tennessee Valley Authority, "Recent PEPSE And PMAX Experiences At TVA Nuclear Units," (509 KB) User's Group Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 10-12, 2004
William C. Kettenacker, SCIENTECH, Inc., " Power Uprate Studies for Nuclear Power Plants Using PEPSE - Lessons Learned Update 2," (232 KB) User's Group Meeting, Chicago, IL, August 10-12, 2004
Gene
L. Minner, PhD, SCIENTECH, Inc., " Advanced Tuning Methods in PEPSE , Demonstrated by Application to a Design Mode
Nuclear Reheater," (260 KB) User's Group Meeting,
Gene L. Minner, PhD, SCIENTECH, Inc., " Design Mode Analysis of Reheaters in Nuclear Steam Secondary Cycles," (107 KB) User's Group Meeting, Clearwater Beach, FL, June 23-25, 2003
William C. Kettenacker, SCIENTECH, Inc., "Power Uprate Studies for Nuclear Power Plants Using PEPSE - Lessons Learned Update 1," (221 KB) User's Group Meeting,Clearwater Beach, FL, June 23-25, 2003
William C. Kettenacker, SCIENTECH, Inc., " Power Uprate Studies for Nuclear Power Plants Using PEPSE - Lessons Learned," (265 KB) User's Group Meeting, Idaho Falls, ID, June 25-27, 2002.
Randolph M. Inman, Allegheny Energy Supply, "Categorizing Units Based on Controllable Loss Parameters using PEPSE®," (277 KB) User's Group Meeting, Idaho Falls, ID, June 25-27, 2002.
William
C. Kettenacker, SCIENTECH, Inc., " Development of a PEPSE® Turbine Cycle
Model With District Heating," (41 KB) User's Group
Meeting,
Duane H. Morris, Tennessee Valley Authority and William C. Kettenacker, Scientech, Inc., "An Energy Balance Model for Watts Bar Nuclear Plant," (917 KB) User's Group Meeting, Idaho Falls, ID, June 22-25, 1998.
Ianovici Ilan and Mankovsky Vladimir, Isreal Electric Corporation, Ltd, "Extended Use of Special Option 6," (671 KB) User's Group Meeting, Idaho Falls, ID, June 22-25, 1998.
William P. Reinhart, American Electric Power, " AEP's Conversion of Mainframe Models to PC," (259 KB) User's Group Meeting, Columbus, OH, June 23-27, 1997.
Andrew Maxson, Praxis Engineers, Inc, "Least-Cost Power Generation Using PECOS: A Status Report for the Project at Genoa," (1 MB) User's Group Meeting, Columbus, OH, June 23-27, 1997.
Joe Wooten, Texas Utilities Company, " Comparison of Turbine Vendor Correction Curves with PEPSE® Generated Correction Curves," (725 KB) User's Group Meeting, Columbus, OH, June 23-27, 1997.
Jerry K. Barrett and Gene L. Minner, Scientech, Inc., "On Superposition of Steam Turbine Cycle Performance Correction Curves," (2.2 MB) User's Group Meeting, Columbus, OH, June 23-27, 1997.
Deborah H. Cioffi, Encotech Engineering, " Using Steam Path Audits in a Performance Guarantee Program," (810 KB) User's Group Meeting, Columbus, OH, June 23-27, 1997.
William C. Kettenacker, Performance Engineering, Inc. and Robin R. Frederickson, Northern States Power, "Calculating Best Achievable Heat Rate Using Energy Balance Calculations," (535 KB) User's Group Meeting, Charleston, SC, June 11-14, 1996.
John L. Tsou, Electric Power Research Institute, "EPRI's HEATXPRT™ Heat Rate Improvement Advisor," (9 KB) User's Group Meeting, Charleston, SC, June 11-14, 1996.
Shawn C. Whitecar, Encotech, Inc. "Using Existing Steam Turbines in Off-Design Applications," (.4 MB) User's Group Meeting, Kansas City, MO, June 20-23, 1995
Glenn Beckerdite, Kansas City Power & Light Company; M.L. Berasi and D.A. Rosario, Structural Integrity Associates; L. Evans, KPL a Western Resources Company; and D. R. Broske, Electric Research Institute, "On-Line Aging Monitoring of Boiler and Turbine Components Using Creep-FatiguePro," (1.2 MB) User's Group Meeting, Kansas City, MO, June 20-23, 1995
Shawn C. Whitecar, Encotech, Inc, "Predicting Turbine Efficiency Changes Using the Steam Turbine Redesign Evaluation (STRE©) Program," (501 KB) User's Group Meeting, Lexington, KY, June 21-24, 1994
Chester
S. Sullivan, Iowa Electric Light & Power Company, "Using the Second Law of Thermodynamics to
Analyze Power Plant Performance," (1.12 MB) User's
Group Meeting,
Michael
G. Hunt, Entergy Operations, Inc., "Long Term Experience with PEPSE Special
Option 6 for Nuclear BOP Performance Monitoring," (578
KB) User's Group Meeting,
Laura
M. Douglass, Pacific Gas & Electric, "Practical Experience With Second Law Power
Plant Monitoring," (1.71 MB) User's Group Meeting,
I. Ianovici, Israel Electric Corporation, "Modeling Turbine By-Pass Operation," (1.32 MB) User's Group Meeting,
William
C. Kettenacker, Central & South West Services, Inc. , "Use of An Energy Balance Computer Program
in the Plant Life Cycle," (980 KB) User's Group
Meeting,
Michael
Hunt,
Michael
Hunt,
Catherine
A. McMurtrie, Philadelphia Electric Company, "PEPSE Modeling Through Complete Load Range
of a Unit," (762 KB) User's Group Meeting,
Gregory
A. Staggers, Potomac Electric Power Company and Ronald E. Brandon, Power
Technologies, Inc., "A Turbine Cycle Analysis Procedure
Used at Potomac Electric Power Company," (4.28 MB) User's
Group Meeting,
Michael
Hunt, Louisiana Power & Light Company. "Performance Improvement Programs at
Louisiana Power & Light," (1.19 MB) User's Group
Meeting,
Stuart
B. Sabol, Virginia Electric & Power Company, "Performance Evaluation of a Nuclear
Station With PEPSE," (1.37 MB) User's Group Meeting,
Stuart
B. Sabol, Virginia Electric & Power Company, "Possum Point Unit 4 PEPSE Model and
Applications," (1.72 MB) User's Group Meeting,
W.
Michael Earle, Ohio Edison Company, "A Three-Model System for Identifying
and Quantifying Turbine Cycle Losses," (922 KB) User's
Group Meeting,