Seeing Failures Before They Happen: A Power Plant’s Remote Monitoring Transformation

At Tufanbeyli Thermal Power Plant, a standards-based predictive alarm detected rising bearing temperatures on absorber recirculation pumps while failures in the running-hours counter and automatic lubrication work-order chain remained hidden. This case study reveals how the team used an independent monitoring layer to identify the fault early and prevent mechanical seal, gear reducer, and outage-related losses.

Serdar Gündoğdu
Enerjisa Üretim

Webinars

Motor Testing

Power Circuit Analysis Techniques

Join Noah Bethel for this upcoming webinar where he will explore methods for diagnosing voltage imbalance, identifying power circuit issues, and improving motor troubleshooting using energized and deenergized testing. He will also cover technology correlation and practical approaches for finding root causes faster.

Tuesday, September 15 | 2:00pm-3:00pm ET

Noah Bethel
PdMA Corporation

The Todd and Noah Podcast

Motor Testing

Power Quality Fault Zone Tips – The Todd and Noah Show

In this episode, Todd and Noah discuss more case studies from the field, this time focusing on power quality fault zone tips.

Todd Gunderson Noah Bethel
PdMA Corporation

The Todd and Noah Podcast

Motor Testing

Forensic Power Circuits – Todd and Noah Show

Todd and Noah talk about how as much as 10% of problems can come from the power circuit and how it reduces efficiency before reviewing a series of power circuit case studies.

Todd Gunderson Noah Bethel
PdMA Corporation

The Todd and Noah Podcast

Motor Testing

Power Circuit Tips – Todd and Noah Show

Up next on Todd and Noah’s series of tips, they review multiple case studies regarding the power circuit area, the resistance and resistive balance, positive and negative temperature coefficient and more.

Todd Gunderson Noah Bethel
PdMA Corporation

Case Studies and Stories

Ultrasound

Maintaining Power Plants With Ultrasound – A Success Story

In the biomass power plant of Danpower Energie Service GmbH in Delitzsch, Germany, SONOTEC's ultrasonic testing technology was used to successfully detect various types of leaks.

Christian Probst
SONOTEC GmbH

Articles

Alignment + Balancing
Ultrasound
Vibration Analysis

Commercial and Industrial Power System Losses and Mitigation through Neutral and Ground

Even in discussions related to power harmonics most engineers, let alone reliability and energy professionals, understand the potential losses through the system. When it comes to harmonic content in neutral and ground in single and three phase systems, and the related losses, there has been limited attention...