{"id":717,"date":"2019-01-14T22:47:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-14T22:47:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/johnbrear-plantintegrity.com\/?page_id=717"},"modified":"2019-01-17T01:03:14","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T01:03:14","slug":"a-strategic-turbine-life-assessment","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/johnbrear-plantintegrity.com\/?page_id=717","title":{"rendered":"A strategic turbine life assessment"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_725\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-725\" style=\"width: 400px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/johnbrear-plantintegrity.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/Castle-Peak.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"300\" class=\"size-full wp-image-725\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-725\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Power plant<\/figcaption><\/figure>\r\n<p><strong>Station:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n    <li>Coal-fired, 4 x 650MW, located in the far east<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>Objective: <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n    <li>Comprehensive life assessment of HP-IP-LP turbines, prior to possible corporate re-structuring<\/li>\r\n    <li>Evaluation of start-up\/shut-down procedures<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>Approach: <\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n    <li>Detailed finite element analysis of all thermal and mechanical loads during steady running and current hot, warm and cold starts<\/li>\r\n    <li>Creep and fatigue life assessment in conformity with R5 methodology<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p><strong>Benefits:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n    <li>Established that remaining life exceeds operational requirements<\/li>\r\n    <li>Confirmed that current start-up\/shut-down procedures are relatively innocuous and do not need to be changed to extend life<\/li>\r\n    <li>Components ranked by life consumption<\/li>\r\n    <li>Future inspection prioritised by critical location<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Station: Coal-fired, 4 x 650MW, located in the far east Objective: Comprehensive life assessment of HP-IP-LP turbines, prior to possible corporate re-structuring Evaluation of start-up\/shut-down procedures Approach: Detailed finite element analysis of all thermal and mechanical loads during steady running and current hot, warm and cold starts Creep and fatigue life assessment in conformity with &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/johnbrear-plantintegrity.com\/?page_id=717\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A strategic turbine life assessment<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":169,"menu_order":3,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-717","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbrear-plantintegrity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbrear-plantintegrity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbrear-plantintegrity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbrear-plantintegrity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbrear-plantintegrity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=717"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/johnbrear-plantintegrity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/717\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":722,"href":"https:\/\/johnbrear-plantintegrity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/717\/revisions\/722"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnbrear-plantintegrity.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/169"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnbrear-plantintegrity.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}