Steam Turbine Performance Testing

CleanAir provides impartial third party steam turbine testing for new unit contractual acceptance testing, pre-and-post modification testing, and benchmarking purposes. CleanAir has conducted a large number of these tests utilizing equipment developed by CleanAir to satisfy the rigorous requirements of PTC 6 and PTC 6.2 acceptance tests. CleanAir staff members currently sit on the newly reassembled ASME PTC 6 committee which keeps us abreast of industry needs and new developments.

CleanAir conducts benchmark tests on existing steam turbines to:

• Quantify section efficiencies in order to justify turbine rebuilds,
• Establish baseline performance for benchmarking, trending or heat rate monitoring programs, and
• Verify plant instrumentation for plant performance monitoring projects.

CleanAir testing expertise and quality instrumentation combine to ensure accurate, low uncertainty test results, which have immediate financial impact for the end-user, especially when contractual tolerances are tied to test result uncertainty. High accuracy tests are also paramount to OEMs and others making contractual performance guarantees since tests with higher uncertainties require more conservative designs to demonstrate contractual compliance.

CleanAir has a unique understanding of test uncertainties and the sensitivities of test measurements to overall test accuracy. CleanAir utilizes this expertise to cost effectively design accurate tests that meet rigorous code level requirements.

Please call CleanAir's Performance group at 800-208-6162 for more information regarding steam turbine performance testing.