GE Introduces ‘SMART Repair’ Approach to Expand Inspection and Repair Services to Non-GE Power Plant Equipment
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GE’s Power Services Business Completes First-of-This Kind
Inspection and Repairs of GE and Non-GE Equipment at Doga Enerji’s
Ensenyurt Power Plant on Outskirts of Istanbul, Turkey
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Project Helps Boost Station’s Reliability to Supply Electricity,
District Heating to the Country’s Most Populous City
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New Technologies Used to Inspect Non GE-Made Equipment
GE’s Power Services business (NYSE:GE) today announced it has completed
the inspection and repairs of the 180-megawatt (MW) Ensenyurt Power
Plant on the outskirts of Istanbul, the country’s most populous city.
The 16-year-old station’s owner, Turkish utility Doga
Enerji, selected GE to enhance the site’s long-term reliability in
meeting the area’s growing electricity and district heating needs.
“Istanbul is one of the most populous cities in the world with several
large residential communities having been built in the municipal
district of Ensenyurt in recent years, making it necessary to increase
the reliability of our power plant and the supply of spare parts and
support services,” said Arif Kayi, maintenance supervisor of Doga
Enerji’s Ensenyurt Power Plant. “We selected GE to provide spare parts,
inspection and repair services for one of the three 6B gas turbines. Of
the five bids we received, GE was the only company to meet all of our
specific services requirements to ensure the long-term availability of
the station and reduce the possibility of costly, unplanned outages.”
The project also marked the first time GE completed repairs on non
GE-made parts as well as GE-supplied components. During the project
proposal process, GE implemented its new, more flexible and responsive
“SMART Repairs” approach to help Doga Enerji identify its repair needs
and priorities.
“GE is seeing a growing trend in Turkey where utilities are retrofitting
and upgrading the efficiency of their mature generation systems or
repowering with higher-class gas turbines units,” said Pascal
Schweitzer, general manager of GE’s Power Services business in Europe.
“With GE’s SMART Repairs initiative, we are able to offer more repair
scope options and adopt a more flexible, responsive and cost-effective
approach to deliver our solutions. The Ensenyurt Power Plant is Turkey’s
only GE 6B gas turbine-powered plant with a government power purchase
agreement, making it crucial that we help Doga Enerji ensure the
continuous operation of their facility.”
Located 30 kilometers west of Istanbul in the municipal district of
Ensenyurt, the power plant is a dual-fuel combined-cycle power plant
that uses natural gas as its primary fuel and diesel as a secondary fuel
to generate critical electricity for the local grid and steam for
district heating. The station features three of GE’s 40-MW Frame 6B gas
turbine-generator sets and a GE 74D-SP-FG-CAX steam turbine. The gas
turbines were manufactured by Thomassen International BV under license
from GE. The units also feature GE’s DLN1 (Dry Low NOx)
combustion technology to control NOx emissions, with water
injection used for NOx control when firing on diesel fuel.
GE used the expertise and experience of its global Repair Technology
Center of Excellence (RTCoE) to ensure that Doga’s requests for unique
coatings and processes were fulfilled. GE sent multiple field
engineering teams to the site to inspect and assess the hardware. Using
Blue Light as well as customized proprietary inspection programs, GE
verified component dimensional integrity. Along with these inspections,
the RTCoE also validated material properties to determine optimal repair
scope for the non-GE components.
Enhanced by GE’s recent acquisition of Alstom’s Power & Grid businesses,
GE’s Power Services business operates a global network of more than 50
repair shops that are strategically located for agile responsiveness,
tapping into regional compliance and regulatory expertise while offering
customized repairs to shorten customer downtime. By integrating Alstom’s
expertise in repairing parts for numerous OEM brands and mobile on-site
resources, GE’s Power Services business is able to deliver faster
maintenance support to customers in Turkey and around the world.
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industry with software-defined machines and solutions that
are connected, responsive and predictive. GE is organized around a
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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
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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.
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About GE’s Power Services Business
GE’s Power Services business, headquartered in Baden, Switzerland,
delivers world-class 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, which includes other OEMs, 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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