Power generation

Power plants send parts that have already lived in steam, ash, and vibration. The coating job is to put them back on the outage calendar, not to win a beauty contest in the crate.

Fan journals, pump sleeves, boiler tube shields, and turbine auxiliaries show up with erosion, corrosion, and packing wear in the same week. HVOF carbides take sliding wear. Plasma ceramics take heat and chemistry. ID work on bowls is a regular guest; OD journals are the daily bread. When a seat is washing, cladding is in the conversation. The 50 to 75 percent life story on Our Company was written with these plants in mind.

Outage windows are not theoretical. A traveler that waits on a missing gage is a megawatt problem. That is why quality and a temperature-controlled grind bay exist. Balance tickets on rotors are paper, not folklore. If the old coating must leave first, waterjet keeps fillets for the next land.

From the home page power is one tile among industries. On a forced outage it is the only tile. Send the outage date with the print. A photo of the wear land and the mating packing type saves a round of mail. Process names: thermal spray. Neighboring industries: industries served.

Hydro and steam argue differently about corrosion. Name the fluid. “Power plant” is not a chemistry.

Outage clocks

Put the return-to-service date in the first sentence of the email. Steam versus hydro versus ash-laden flue gas are different chemistries. Fan journals, pump bowls, and valve seats are different guns. A missing balance ticket on a rotor is a start-up delay. Gages that wait in calibration are megawatts; that is why the quality cage exists. If the part is banana-shaped, say it before powder. Photos with scale, packing brand, and whether the mating part is also worn prevent a coating that is perfect and still leaks. Neighbor industries can share a booth day; they cannot share a traveler. Forced outages still need a print, even a marked-up one.