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Remote monitoring and drones joint the maintenance & repair toolkit

Overhauling Assets

Turbomachinery International has been a regular visitor to the Baker Hughes Annual Meeting (AM) in Florence, Italy. But this year, a virtual format had to suffice.









The bright future for natural gas

Amin Almasi is senior rotating equipment consultant in Australia. He is chartered professional engineer from Engineers Australia and IMechE and registered professional engineer in Australia and Queensland (M.Sc. and B.Sc. in mechanical engineering). He specializes in rotating equipment, condition monitoring and reliability.

There are many reasons for turbomachinery problems and failures. Resonance, for example, is often overlooked.

Tip: Don't overlook resonance in turbomachinery failures

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Q&A: Resolving shaft currents and electrical discharges

A stable renewable-rich grid needs transmission build-out, and incentivized ancillary services.








Solving U.S. Transmission

No Apologies

Mark Axford has more than 35 years of energy experience as an engineer,  product manager, sales and marketing executive, and independent consultant with Axford Turbine Consultants. For more information, visit Axfordconsulting.com

The ERCOT grid in Texas works well with renewable energy. But increasing the volume of renewables further may not be practical. More generation of all types and greater attention to winter readiness is needed. 

Who is to blame for the Texas grid outages?

The benefits of a digitalized, software-driven world for turbomachinery include the capacity to handle large amounts of data. Now, engineering teams can run larger, more complex simulations using cloud services and pass data seamlessly between teams.

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