Written by Scott Schreeg | Power Plants
Power plants are a considerable part of the world’s economy. Without power generation, a majority of the world would shut down. As a result, power plants must maintain a clean, functioning facility, as inefficient or malfunctioning equipment can significantly reduce or even halt production. A complete plant outage requiring repairs is typically very costly.
Power plant maintenance includes inspections, adjustments, repairs, replacements, and most importantly, scheduled preventative and predictive maintenance of numerous equipment, assets, and machinery. Both conventionally fueled steam generation and nuclear-powered industrial plants need diligent and well-organized operation using maintenance management to minimize downtime and produce energy efficiently and safely. The health and safety of plant workers, the public, and the environment are also crucial for power plant owners.
SVI BREMCO is a turnkey power plant service provider. We work with power plant owners to ensure we understand all their maintenance and repair needs. We are committed to helping power plants maintain efficiency and reduce the cost of operations during planned and emergency outages. It’s always our goal to return power plants to full-capacity operations as quickly as possible.
SVI BREMCO has multiple full-service facilities and seven mobile repair shops to provide around-the-clock services to our customers. As a turnkey service provider for power plants, our customers have the advantage of getting many different services from one source. For example, SVI Dynamics, a division of SVI BREMCO, manufactures engineered gas path and industrial noise control solutions for power plants.
SVI BREMCO is a leading provider of valve repair and maintenance, machining, welding and fabrication, and industrial brick and tile services and solutions to our power plant customers.
What Types of Valve and Machining Services Does SVI Provide to Power Plants?
Valves are used in numerous applications within power plants and are crucial to efficient operations. SVI BREMCO has the expertise to ensure that our power plant customers’ valves perform best for those applications. Our valve and machining services include jobs like control valves, safety relief valves, manual valves, and ASME Section 1 R-Stamp repairs. Additionally, we have performed MOV manual valve onsite repair, Fisher control valve, Limitorque, WEIR BFV, and onsite Section 1 SRV EVT and VR Code repairs. We have provided onsite control and manual valve repairs for up to 200+ total valves for many power plants.
Another power plant job included the onsite removal, test, VR code repair, as needed, for +/- 100 Section 1 and VIII safety relief valves, followed by reinstallation. At other power plants, alongside valve repair, our machinists and code welders have been responsible for pipe fabrication and R-Stamp weld repairs, boring, drilling, and tapping a turbine valve body seat pocket to convert from a weld-in seat design to a bolt-in design; in-line gasket surface machining on eight elliptical manway openings; and the drilling out removal of 24 3 ¼” studs and line boring the valve body seat for seat replacement in a turbine trip control valve.
With SVI BREMCO’s full-service machining shops and a fleet of on-call mobile facilities (available for dispatch 24/7), we are prepared to help power plant owners during planned and unplanned outages.
What Types of Welding and Fabrication Services Does SVI Provide to Power Plants?
SVI BREMCO provides power plants with welding and fabrication services, including shop and onsite welding, fabrication, and installation services related to our complete spectrum of specialty services.
We have performed jobs associated with welding and fabrication, including harp and duct repairs and valve repairs and replacements during a plants’ fall outage; tube samples, hydrogen piping, liner repairs, R-Stamp code repairs, and HP Economizer valve replacements during another power plant’s fall outage; and valve and code piping replacements U5/U6 for another power plant customer.
What Types of Brick and Tile Services Does SVI Provide to Power Plants?
SVI BREMCO’s Brick and Tile division has engineers and craftsmen with extensive knowledge and resources to perform industrial masonry jobs quickly and efficiently. We offer power plants corrosion-resistant solutions and complete all process stages, from design and material selection through installation and maintenance.
Recently, SVI BREMCO has completed many brick and tile jobs, including installing a new borosilicate lining system in the absorber duct, fabricating and installing absorber Hastelloy plate shields, and demoing and replacing the absorber’s brick and tile floor.
SVI BREMCO Is Your Power Plant’s Turnkey Service Provider
At SVI BREMCO, we provide power plants with services to address numerous repair and maintenance issues. Our fleet of mobile repair and machine shops performs many services onsite and is supplied with the most innovative and portable equipment and tools, including mobile boilers.
If you need a turnkey services provider for your power plant, call SVI BREMCO today.