After a near 50 year lifespan, Barron Gorge’s hydro generator insulation systems needed to be rewound and upgraded. The Queensland, Australia based power station has been operating in a World Heritage ...

A Toshiba-Westinghouse consortium will renew the stator coils of Electricité de France (EdF) nuclear power units at more than ten power plants. This closely follows a contract from EdF with Alstom for ...

Retaining rings restrain coils, insulation and blocking near the end turns of a generator rotor. They must have high strength and fracture toughness to withstand the tangential and axial stresses that ...

Over the past decade, since industry deregulation, the typical utility power plant has lengthened the maintenance intervals of its major systems to minimize downtime and costs. Many plants schedule ...

Mechanical Dynamics & Analysis (MD&A) has completed another successful generator rewind as part of life extensions programs on a gas turbine fleet in the northwest US. This project featured a unique ...

To meet the demand for drive motors / generators needed for hybrid vehicles, engineers at Remy International Inc. designed a line of off-the-shelf devices that are said to have the highest ...