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Summer Projects are Heating Up!

We’ve been going strong all summer!  Hard to believe August is almost here.  We’ve had our crews at 32 different customer sites across the U.S. so far this summer… and counting.  Typically summertime brings a slow down for maintenance as turbines and generators across the country are in full operation for peak run season.  But we’ve had a solid summer, and we’re gearing up for a busy fall outage season.  If there are any turbine maintenance inspection or repair projects you’re considering for this fall please give us a call – we’re ready and willing to help however we can!

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 members of our project team make PSG an ideal supplier for turbine maintenance projects at any chemical facility.  We specialize in the type and size range of most gas and steam turbines found within these facilities, and know what it takes to get the job done on-schedule and on-budget, all while following strict safety guidelines throughout the project.  If you have any upcoming turbine maintenance needs during your next turnaround please contact us today to learn more about how we can be of service to you.

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 inspection – minimizing Change Order surprises.  We examine every relevant aspect of the power train.  We perform meaningful measurements of components and clearances and record multiple measurements at each location.  Recording this extra data allows us to better identify potential problems and enables us to establish trends across successive inspections.

We have the right resources and the right people to provide professional and total turnkey outage service. That is, PSG will procure and manage all resources needed to complete your outage, and you can rest assured that our outage scope will be taken care of professionally and efficiently.

When you choose PSG for your turbine generator services, we immediately begin strategizing for your outage with our experienced project teams, our project-specific planning, our learned and tested processes, our customized tooling, and our attitude of safety and customer service.

  • Planning: PSG can help you plan for your next outage through the development of the workscope, parts requirements, tool inventory and recommendations, and bid documents.
  • Communication: We understand how important communication is and tend to over-communicate through daily status reports and daily project meetings.
  • Quality: PSG is so confident in our quality that we can offer a one year warranty of our work, including our PSG contracted suppliers.  This means that if you suspect a deficiency in our work on your outage, we will immediately come out to investigate.  If we find that the problem is our responsibility, we will immediately mobilize all resources necessary to correct the problem, at no cost to you.

If we find damage or deviation to specification, we perform a full assessment to diagnose the root causes behind the symptom and recommend actions to prevent its return.  These recommendations may include operational or maintenance changes.  The goal of our comprehensive measurements and proactive approach to repairs is the elimination of future forced outages.

Trust PSG and our experience in serving any of your power generation needs. Contact us today for more information.

Paper Mill Reopening

Just over a year ago the Phoenix Paper Mill in Wickliffe, Kentucky made their first roll of bleached hardwood pulp since their re-opening in 2019.  We are proud to have helped the mill get their turbines back in operating condition, and thankful for the opportunity to be of service.  The mill is vital to the Wickliffe community and provided over 200 jobs after the reopening.  Now that we just passed the one-year anniversary of their initial production run, it’s amazing to look back on the work we put in, as well as the work every other employee and contractor put in during that time.  Congratulations on the one year anniversary Phoenix Paper!

 

Turbine Wheel Manufacture

We recently manufactured a new turbine wheel at our Gainesville, Georgia component reverse engineering and manufacturing facility.  The team does an amazing job at manufacturing components to very strict tolerances, with the final product being to specification and delivered to the customer in a timely manner.

Here is some feedback we received this week from another customer:

“Parts were received on the date (he) indicated they would be”

“Parts were every bit as good in quality as those from OEM”

“I work out of a headquarters function and will recommend Orbital as a supplier of turbine parts, especially when reverse engineering of the parts is required”

Here is a short video of the turbine wheel in production:

Steam Turbine Major Inspection SHORT