IRIS POWER

IRMC 2023

June 26-29, 2023 Royal Sonesta Houston, Houston, TX

In-person IRMC - Iris Rotating Machine Conference

The 25th Iris Rotating Machine Conference – IRMC will be held in person this year in Houston, TX  from June 26 to 29, 2023.

Hope to see you in June!

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Hotel

The Royal Sonesta Houston Galleria
2222 West Loop South
Houston, TX 77027

Phone: 855-463-3091

Room Rate – $179.00 Single - (until June 4, 2023) $189.00 Double

Please join us!

The Iris Rotating Machine Conference is a technical conference held annually, 2023 will be our 25th year. This conference is dedicated to bringing together professionals from around the world to discuss the predictive maintenance technologies and to educate attendees on the practical aspects of implementing condition-based maintenance for motors and generators. Attendees will have the opportunity to share their experiences with recent failures, repair methods, testing and monitoring.

Cost
Technical Sessions – $650.00 USD (early bird $585.00 USD until May 26)
Tutorials – $150.00 USD each             Tutorial Descriptions

Agenda

Monday June 26 – Tutorials
  • Partial Discharge Theory & Interpretation Tutorial – Instructor: Howard Sedding
  • Stator Endwinding Vibration: Causes, Off-line Tests and On-line Monitoring Tutorial – Instructor: Aaron Doyle
Tuesday June 27
  • Technical Session
  • Breakout Sessions (in parallel)
    > Motors
    > Generators
Wednesday June 28
  • Technical Session
  • Users Group
  • Walk-in Clinic – bring your data to be analyzed
Thursday June 29 – Tutorials
  • Advance Partial Discharge Interpretation – Instructor: Greg Stone
  • AC Machine Stator Winding Maintenance Tutorial – Instructor: Nick Stranges, Mladen Sasic

 

Preliminary Program

General SessionTuesday June 27, 2023


Hydro Generator Earth Fault – Installation of Carbon Dust Collection SystemPeter Kelly, ESB, Ireland


Investigation of Hydrogenerators Vulnerability Regarding Shaft Voltage and Bearing Currents Joel Pedneault-Desroches, Hydro Quebec


Ripple Spring Wedging Ageing in Hydro UnitsJean-Louis Drommi, EDF, France


Performance testing after upgrade of HPP Iron Gate 1Todora Lazic, ENERGOPROJEKT, Serbia


Partial Discharge Levels Before and After Partial Stator Winding Refurbishment In PSHPP VelebitMilutin Pavlica, Energy Institute Inc., Croatia, Zoran Bertalanic, Energy Institute Inc., Croatia


Unique Generator FailuresGeoff Klempner, Consultant, Canada - Keynote


General SessionWednesday June 28, 2023


Motor Rewind ExperiencesWilliam Chen, Teco-Westinghouse, USA


A Personal Digital Library of Electrical MachinesRelu Ilie, Israel Electric, Israel


Recent Generator Stator Coil Insulation System DevelopmentsHoward Moudy, National Electric Coil, USA


Condition Based Maintenance versus Time BasedJason Hunter, NexGen, USA


Turbo Generator Stator Core Minor Damage Repair by Electrical Etching and ELCID MeasurementsOsmo Koponen, TGS Finland Oy


Effective Ways To Mitigate Partial Discharge And Rehabilitate AC Windings By Re-Establishing Corona Suppression System (Case Stories ) Javier Portos, Integrated Power Services, USA


Generator On-line MonitoringDean Yager, SaskPower, Canada


Limitations of ELCID Testing and The Comparison Between ELCID And Flux Test Results to Repair and Requalify the Core Prior to the Planned RewindMaxwell Hayward, Bruce Power, Canada


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Call us at +1 905.677.4824, email us at sales.iris@qualitrolcorp.com, or fill out the registration form below.

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