GE Unveils Cross-Fleet Gas Turbine Capabilities That Can Increase Performance and Reliability of Other OEM Fleets
May 16 2018 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
- New Cross-Fleet Service Solutions
Support a Range of Technologies, Including Siemens and Mitsubishi
Gas Turbine Fleets
- Cross-Fleet Capabilities Will Help
Deliver on Customers’ Needs for More Output and Flexibility Plus
Less Downtime for Maintenance
- GE Has More than $200 Million in Orders
Backlog with Power Producers in Mexico, Russia and Germany
- New Service Solutions Extend GE’s Total
Plant Capabilities to Other OEM Gas Plant Assets
Expanding its commitment to service cross-fleet power generation
equipment, GE’s Power Services business (NYSE: GE) today unveiled a
range of capabilities to advance the performance and reliability of
other original equipment manufacturer (OEM) gas turbine fleets,
including Siemens’ and Mitsubishi’s SGT-800 and 501F units. GE also
announced more than $200 million in gas turbine cross-fleet orders
backlog. GE’s injection of its advanced capabilities and technology
into these fleets will help gas plant operators gain more
flexibility, reliability and efficiency along with longer
maintenance intervals and better overall performance.
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GE's Cross-Fleet Experience.
“GE is proven as one of the technology leaders and trusted
service providers with 50 million hours of F-class operating
experience on our own fleet, which we are applying to cross-fleet
assets,” said Scott Strazik, president and CEO of GE’s Power
Services business. “We’re also benefiting from the extensive steam
turbine, generator and HRSG other-OEM capabilities and expertise we
acquired from Alstom’s power business in November 2015. We’ve
combined all of these attributes and broadened our capabilities to
now include select cross-fleet gas turbines. With more than $200
million in backlog orders in Latin America and Europe now booked,
the timing makes sense to unveil our capabilities externally.”
This industry-leading expertise includes applying insights from
GE’s F-class gas turbines, amassed from 50 million operating hours,
to develop new hardware components that deliver better performance
and services that reduce downtime. Patented and proprietary GE
technologies such as advanced coatings, stronger alloys and
enhanced cooling in turbine and combustion components help extend
maintenance intervals and increase performance output. Plus,
reliability enhancements will help reduce risk during extended
intervals.
“With the expansion of our gas turbine cross-fleet capabilities,
we’re adopting other OEMs’ units into our fleet for long-term
services support,” said Martin O’Neill, general manager of
cross-fleet solutions for GE’s Power Services business. “These
capabilities span a broad range of services and are blended with
our own OEM expertise, coming from both GE and Alstom. As an OEM
with a collective 270+ years of power generation experience, we’re
combining our proven expertise across similar gas turbine
technologies with data-driven insights to improve the original
performance and flexibility of these units.”
GE has completed several outages at 501F power plants, spanning
inspection services on all major plant components and systems. Its
501F capabilities include:
- Increased intervals of up to 32,000
hours/1,250 starts (for fewer combustion inspections).
- More output and better efficiency in
both simple-cycle and combined-cycle operations.
- Improved emissions with lower turndown
and fuel flexibility.
GE has also signed several long-term agreements to provide
maintenance and performance upgrades for SGT-800 turbines. Its
capabilities in this fleet include:
- Significantly extended maintenance
intervals up to 40,000 hours/900 starts.
- Increased output by up to 6 percent and
efficiency up to 1.5 percent.
In addition, GE’s global network of some 40 service centers have
proven processes to inspect and analyze cross-fleet hardware,
develop repair solutions that will keep power and steam producers
up and running and improve overall plant performance.
GE’s gas turbine cross-fleet capabilities also include remote
monitoring capabilities to help customers increase reliability and
availability, reduce operation and maintenance costs and mitigate
operational risks.
“GE’s Predix-based APM software applications give customers
advanced data analytics to help predict and eliminate unplanned
downtime, as well as improve plant reliability and availability,”
adds O’Neill. “This software helps predict potential problems on
both GE and non-GE equipment, avoid costly unplanned outages and
increase plant flexibility.”
GE’s Asset Performance Management (APM) solution includes
predictive maintenance capabilities and 24/7 remote monitoring from
its global Monitoring & Diagnostics (M&D) Center in
Atlanta. GE currently monitors more than 1,000 cross-fleet power
generation assets and provides its customers with data-driven
insights from OEM equipment.
About GE
GE (NYSE: GE) is the world’s Digital Industrial
Company, transforming industry with software-defined
machines and solutions that are connected, responsive and
predictive. GE is organized around a global exchange of
knowledge, the "GE Store," through which each business shares and
accesses the same technology, markets, structure and intellect.
Each invention further fuels innovation and application across our
industrial sectors. With people, services, technology and scale, GE
delivers better outcomes for customers by speaking the language of
industry. www.ge.com
About GE Power
GE Power is a world leader in power generation with deep domain
expertise to help customers deliver electricity from a wide
spectrum of fuel sources. We are transforming the electricity
industry with the digital power plant, the world’s largest and most
efficient gas turbine, full balance of plant, upgrade and service
solutions as well as our data-leveraging software. Our innovative
technologies and digital offerings help make power more affordable,
reliable, accessible and sustainable. For more information, visit
the company's website at www.gepower.com.
About GE’s Power Services
GE’s Power Services, headquartered in Baden, Switzerland,
delivers world-class service solutions for our customers across
total plant assets and their operational lifetimes. This
organization supports 2,800+ customers worldwide with an installed
base of 28,000+ power generation assets across 90+ brands of power
generation equipment and taps into the Industrial Internet to
improve the performance of our solutions over the entire life cycle
through the power of software and big data analytics.
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