Generator Services
RTS is proud to announce our entry into the generator services market to round out our portfolio of field services that we offer our customers as their comprehensive, turn-key solution to all of their turbine & generator service needs.
- Brushless exciter test, inspection and complete overhaul
- Field ground detector troubleshooting for both RF and Optical systems
- Retaining Ring removal & inspections
- Non-destructive testing (NDT) of retaining rings
- Collector ring machining
- Complete rotor rewind
- Post-rewind high speed balancing
- Radial hydrogen seal replacement
- End winding resonance detection and repairs “bump test”
- Connection ring / parallel ring re-blocking & re-tying
- End winding re-blocking & re-tying based on bump test & visual inspection results
- End winding stiffening treatment
- Corona and partial discharge activity abatement
- Stator re-wedging
- Flux probe installation
- Dry ice “CO2” blasting excessively contaminated stators
- High voltage bushing replacement
- Temporary High voltage bushing & terminal plate leak repairs (“damming”)
- Replacement of stand-off insulators
- Stator core iron repairs
- Insulation resistance & polarization index (“megger & P.I.”)
- DC Leakage test and Hi Pot
- ELCID testing for core faults
- Digital wedge mapping
- Ripple / PSDS spring depth gage testing for wedge tightness
- DC resistance testing of each phase
- Bump test / modal analysis of end windings & connection rings
- Corona camera
- Doble / Tan-Delta / Power Factor testing
- Thermographic detection of high resistance connections
- Westinghouse / MHI inner-cooled unit testing including
- Transposition Testing
- Tube to tube resistance test
- Tube to copper resistance test
- Core through bolt & building bolt torque checks & re-tightening
- Megger of through bolts
- Parallel ring flow testing
- High voltage bushing replacement
- Temporary High voltage bushing & terminal plate leak repairs (“damming”)
- Replacement of stand-off insulators
- Stator core iron repairs
- Insulation resistance & polarization index (“megger & P.I.”)
- DC resistance testing
- AC impedance test
- Pole balance test
- Recurring Surge Oscillography (RSO) test for shorted turns
- Hydrogen seal pressure test for leaks
- Borescope visual inspection
- Consultant services
- Root cause analysis
- Silver plating (electro-plating) bus work mating surfaces
Reliable Turbine Services GATE 1-2-3 Pre-Packaged Generator Testing & Inspection Programs
RTS GATE 1-2-3 programs offer customers a testing and inspection package of services tailored to their specific needs. Individualized packaged service plans ensure that your generator gets the right testing program every time. The GATE offerings are designed to meet the exact needs of each generator, and are meant to give you the confidence of knowing that no issue will go undetected, and peace of mind knowing your generator will produce power reliably once returned to service.