Power Gen Maintenance
When conducting regularly scheduled inspections, or, troubleshooting a problem, Hawkeye Video Borescopes deliver fast, reliable visual inspection, without the need for time-consuming, costly, turbine and generator teardown.
Rotor slot with coil locating dowel viewed with a Hawkeye V2 Videoscope.
Rotor slot entrance viewed with a Hawkeye V2 Videoscope.
Rotor cooling vent viewed with a Hawkeye V2 Videoscope.
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Baseload Power
Gas Turbine Maintenance Borescope Inspection Saves Time and Money for Gas Turbine Plant Inspecting the internal condition of a turbine generator is an important maintenance activity, but tearing a unit apart is a long and expensive process. Borescope inspections offer one way to minimize work while still getting the information needed to evaluate operability. Major gas turbine and generator inspections can be very time consuming and costly. Equipment can be out of service for weeks and often inspections reveal that the machine is in fine working condition. If even a handful of steps can be completed just as effectively but in a shorter period of time using new tools, it can shave days off an outage and save owners many thousands of dollars. That’s what Corpus Christi, Texas–based Baseload Power aimed to do for San Diego Gas and Electric’s Calpeak facility in December 2016. Baseload Power—founded by Richard Lowrance and his business partner Robert Walshe in 2013—is a power generation parts and services company that provides on-site original equipment manufacturer level generator maintenance services. Lowrance and Walshe gained experience working at Brush Electrical Machines and General Electric, respectively, but now provide minor inspections, major overhauls, electrical testing, training, and emergency…