2016 IRMC Program

Session One – Turbine Generators

• Generator Design Changes Necessary for Cyclic Duty, Bill Moore – National Electric Coil, USA
• Experience with the Failure and Repair of a Turbine Generator Stator Due to  Endwinding Vibration, John Demcko  – Arizona Public Service, USA
• Monitoring Connection Ring Vibration and Temperature after a Generator Failure, Mike Nuttall – Intermountain Power Services Corporation, USA
• Westinghouse H2 Conventionally Cooled Stator Partial Restack and Full Stator Rewind – Foreign Object, Mike Bresney  – AGT Services, USA
• How Much PD is to Much?, Howard Sedding – Iris Power, Canada
• Generator Losses and Prevention Strategy, Shuzhen Xu and Kenny Lee – FM Global, USA
• Power Plant Cable Testing, Douglas S. DePriest , Tennessee Valley Authority

Session Two – Hydro Generators

• Flexible Connectors in Generation and Transmission Applications, Igor Chichkin – BC Hydro, Canada         
• In-house Repair of A Failed Hydro-generator Stator Winding, Scott Cotner – US Army Corps of Engineers, USA
• Fire Suppression for Large Rotating Machines – New Options, David Thompson – HDR, USA
• Experience with Thermal Cycling and Voltage Endurance Testing of Stator Bars and Coils Ashfak Shaikh – Kinectrics, Canada
• Hydraulic Unbalance Caused By Asymmetric Turbine Rotor, John Letal –  Iris Power

Session Three  – Motors

• The Effect of Variable Speed Drives on Motor Stator Winding Insulation, Greg Stone – Iris Power, Canada
• Failure’s Detection in Damper Winding of Synchronous Motor  Detected by Partial Discharges Online Test, Guilherme Cestaro – Petrobras, Brazil
• Review of Some Motor Field Problems  and Preventative Measure, William Chen –  Westinghouse, USA