Coal for Eskom now top priority – Coal Roadmap
SUN CITY (miningweekly.com) – Securing coal for Eskom was now the number-one priority, South African Coal Roadmap chairperson Ian Hall said on Tuesday. Addressing the twelfth Coaltrans Southern Africa coal conference at Sun City, the Anglo American Thermal Coal Projects GM said Eskom needed 60-million tons a year of new-mine coal to come on stream in the next few years and 120-million tons before 2020. While a key requirement was to get the new mines up and running by 2015, water-use licences and environmental authorisations might present greater delays than obtaining mining rights. “There’s not even a mandatory response time for water-use licences,” he added. To develop the required new capacity in South Africa in the next five years would be a high mountain to climb.
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Is your maintenance team certifiable?
In this Big Picture Interview, George Connaughton explains how the CMRP exam identifies real-world skill sets. When George Connaughton was the sixth chairman of the Society for Maintenance & Reliability Professionals (www.smrp.org) in 1999-2000, he was president and general manager of Augusta Service in Augusta, Georgia. Now retired, Connaughton shared his thoughts on the state of maintenance and reliability from his home in Florida.
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ROTALIGN ULTRA Slashes Time on 16-Point Turbine Coupling Alignment Checks
The ROTALIGN ULTRA laser alignment system with Continuous Sweep allows turbine coupling checks with two measurements to be completed in as little as 6 minutes instead of 6 hours. The time savings can be further increased by using multiple laser systems for each coupling and having them start at the same time.”
Slashing Time on 16-Point Turbine Coupling Alignment Checks
ENERGY-TECH • April 2013
A power turbine consists of multiple rotors that are joined by couplings. A critical point in the service of a turbine is the coupling check. This check determines the position of the two faces of the coupling with respect to each other.
A “16-point check” has been the standard measurement method for verifying this coupling alignment. In its core form, it is like the “rim and face” check used in standard dial indicator alignment.
The rim readings are measured by a dial indicator that indicates along the edge of the coupling. This reading verifies the offset at the center of the shafts at the coupling point (providing of course that the coupling hubs themselves are not out-of-round or eccentric to the shaft centerline.)…
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How to avoid contingency-based energy plans at your plant
The most effective industrial energy productivity projects integrate end-use efficiency, electrical and thermal distribution efficiency, and increasingly, on-site cogeneration and renewable supply. They are also rarely implemented due to unrealistic hurdle rates or overly optimistic view of future energy price risk. This rarity introduces another reason why so few see the light of day — the learning curve. Suppliers that can create and assess a fully integrated energy model and make detailed recommendations for a complex manufacturing site are hard to find, even on a global basis. Large, highly talented engineering companies stumble when asked to develop a complete energy strategy rather than a specific subproject. At the same time, it is the natural instinct of a customer to select from a group of known and trusted suppliers.
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QMS Tip: Basic Quality Concept [Maintenance Tip]
To everyone who had ever applied a QMS (Quality Management System), the concept ‘Quality’ is the first thing you should understand. When we talk about Quality, words such as product, service, characteristics, satisfaction, client, needs, requirements, and standards come to mind. Putting it in simple terms, Quality is the group of characteristics that a product or service has that satisfies the client’s needs or requirements, in compliance with specific standards such as technical, process derived, legal or other defined. The understanding of this concept is the first step in entering the world of Quality Management. The concept itself summarizes all the quality processes in their 4 basic steps as explained in the PDCA Deming Cycle: correct PLANning to DO/Deliver an specific product or service that should be CHECKed for compliance according the client’s requirements and standards. This should lead us to ACT in terms of decisions and action plans to improve continuously.![QMS Tip: Basic Quality Concept [Maintenance Tip]](http://www.avsrsa.com/wp-content/uploads/et_temp/IDCON-logoType-13417_184x141.png)
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