Entries by Mike.Lake

Allis-Chalmers Industrial Steam Turbine Major Inspection

Power Services Group (PSG) was contracted by an industrial customer in the Midwest U.S. to perform a major inspection of their Allis-Chalmers steam turbine generator. This unit is a non-condensing steam turbine that is directly coupled to an Allis-Chalmers air cooled generator. The turbine and generator set are of a three-bearing design. During the project, […]

Boiler Feed Pump Barrel Repairs

We were recently hired to remove a small indication around the radius of a Boiler Feed Pump Barrel.  We mobilized our experienced technicians and specialty equipment to site.   Once we evaluated the indication, we built a 6″ boring bar to machine an undercut in the radius of the intermediate face and the barrel bore to […]

Beat the Heat!

In our industry, working outdoors in all sorts of weather is part of the job.  Because you can’t stop working when it gets hot, it’s important to know how to protect yourself from heat and what to do if someone on your crew gets overheated. There are two main kinds of heat illness – heat […]

Chemical and Petrochemical Customers

Power Services Group (PSG) is a preferred turbine services provider to the chemical and petrochemical industry.  Our Project Team structure – consisting of Technical Field Advisors, Foreman, Project Coordinators, and Turbine Mechanics – keeps the team members working together as regularly as possible.  The familiarity of our safety and quality processes and procedures by all […]

Turnkey Turbine Outages

With over 34 years of experience performing turbine generator maintenance and repair services, PSG knows what customers expect when it comes to managing an outage. Above and Beyond A PSG inspection is more than open, clean and close.  Our quote includes all of the work implicit to your Statement of Work to achieve a comprehensive […]

Westinghouse 251B Gas Turbine Inspection

We were recently contracted to perform a modified Combustion Inspection on a Westinghouse 251B Gas Turbine by a customer in the United States.  Below is a summary of the activities we completed during this inspection.  All activities were completed with an attention to safety, and our quality processes, to ensure a successful outage completion. Upon […]

Gas Nitriding of Turbine Components

One of the durability enhancements we offer for turbine components is gas nitriding.  Gas nitriding is a surface hardening process, where nitrogen is added to the surface of steel parts using dissociated ammonia as the source. Gas nitriding develops a very hard case in a component at relatively low temperature, without the need for quenching. […]

On-Site Turbine Repair Services

If it is beneficial to you to have turbine component repairs performed on-site, we offer our portable equipment to be ready when components are removed from the turbine.  Contact us today to reserve our portable repair equipment to be on-site for your next turbine outage.

Wind Turbine Machining

We recently completed another uptower wind turbine shaft machining project.  Our equipment and personnel will travel to wherever the problem may be.  For the wind industry, it happens to be 200+ feet above the ground, but we’re happy to do this on your turbine deck or any other area in the plant as well.  Please […]

3D Component Scanning

It’s that time of year again!  When turbines are running throughout the summer season it’s a good time to scan any common parts that you may need to order again in the future.  With our portable metrology-grade 3D scanning equipment, we are able to scan components within extreme accuracy.  You can ship your components to […]