High-speed turbine rotor balancing was once rare because of the costs and logistical challenges involved in doing it during an outage. That’s begun to change as economic options emerge, and ...

The job included open, clean and close, generator rotor rewind, complete steam turbine seal replacement, LP blading repair and valve inspection. Scheduled outage duration was seven weeks.

The accident that wrecked Xcel Energy's largest electric generator in 2011 has been traced to cracks on turbine blades that broke loose from a spinning rotor and caused catastrophic damage that is ...

The turbine in question was installed in September 2022. The wind farm consists of 72 N149/5.X wind turbines totalling 400MW. "As soon as the proper disposal of debris and operating materials has been ...