Performance Enhancement
General Information
- Description
- Benefits
In a performance-based market structure, when plants are managed as profit centers, it is necessary to strategically improve efficiency, optimize capacity, minimize costs and maintain high reliability in order to be competitive - especially when it comes to aging plants. Therefore, Siemens Energy Service has developed an array of Performance Enhancement solutions that can help you make your generating assets more profitable.
Whether you change components or adapt the complete plant to a new design, we deliver state-of-the-art technology and control concepts to help you achieve greater efficiency and reliability. We offer you the proven performance of a global technology leader and service provider.
Satisfied customers all over the world can confirm the effectiveness of our Performance Enhancement solutions in terms of business success and environmental impact.
Your benefits may include:
- Improved performance in terms of availability, reliability, power, efficiency and flexibility
- Reduced maintenance costs by extended maintenance intervals and shorter outages
- Lifetime extension of components
- Reduced emissions.
Generator & Exciter
By modernizing your aging generator and excitation equipment, you can leverage the profitability of your plant, extend lifetime and improve reliability, availability and output. Siemens Energy Service can help you take this next step by offering proven Performance Enhancement Programs, whether your power generation equipment is part of the Siemens family or manufactured by other OEMs.
Our team of generator modernization specialists can identify, design and recommend the best solution to meet your plant’s overall strategic and operational needs. Siemens factories have dedicated service centers for manufacture and repair of components, supplying skilled and experienced workforce for installation of the various products in the field, as well as on-site component repair.
The comprehensive generator and exciter Performance Enhancement Programs include:
- On-site technical assessments through advanced testing techniques
- Comprehensive engineering studies
- Stator modernization
- Rapid rewinds featuring advanced technologies (fast on-site stator rewinds)
- Core refurbishment
- Upratings
- Replacement stators - Rotor modernization
- Fast rewinds featuring advanced technologies
- 18/18 retaining ring change-out
- Upratings
- Replacement rotors - Exciter and auxiliary modernization
- Brushless exciters
- Collectors
- Upratings - Lifetime extension for stator, rotor and exciter equipment
- Life expectancy analysis
- Evaporative coolers and chillers for SGen-1000A generators
- Advanced generator hydrogen seal system, Performance Plus Seals (PPS)
- Advanced diagnostic capabilities.