Acoustic Considerations for Data Center Power Plants
The rapid growth of data centers in the US is changing the energy landscape due to cloud computing, AI, machine learning, and high-density digital workloads. Power use is rising at a rate that hasn't been seen in decades. Many areas are turning to…
Exhaust Silencer Design and Analysis
Exhaust silencers operating in high-temperature environments (1000–1250 °F) face significant thermal, mechanical, and metallurgical challenges. Elevated temperatures can change material properties, reduce structural strength, and induce failure…
Prevent Silencer Failures in High-Temperature Turbine Exhaust Systems
In high-temperature turbine exhaust environments, material selection is often the difference between equipment that lasts decades and equipment that fails within years. Thermal fatigue, creep rupture, and structural degradation occur when materials…
Resolve Turbulent Flow in Exhaust Systems: A Proven Approach
Power plant operators facing persistent silencer failures or reduced turbine performance often struggle to pinpoint the root causes. In many cases, turbulent flow within the exhaust system can compromise structural integrity and operational…
Stopping Energy Loss Before It Escalates: How Thermography Protects HRSG Performance
For any power plant, a key issue is minimizing heat losses to, in turn, maximize the energy available for power generation. SVI Dynamics is proficient with the technique of thermography to identify locations of excessive heat loss in combined cycle…
Safety, Efficiency, and Outage Prevention: A Case Study in Power Plant Thermography
For conscientious and proactive power station project managers across the country, and even the world, the responsibility to manage the resources and facilities entrusted to their care requires a continual evolution of the tools used. One such…
Maintaining Thermal Efficiency in HRSG Units Using Flow Modifiers
SVI BREMCO was asked to assist a combined-cycle power plant with a complex engineering problem: the removal of a Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) transition duct turning vane weldment positioned immediately downstream of a 120 MW class gas…
Optimizing Combustion Turbine Exhaust Systems: Reducing Costs, Noise, and Maintenance Through Better Aerodynamics
Addressing the critical challenges of aerodynamic design can save costs, improve efficiency, extend system life, and enhance acoustic and thermal performance.
Heating Boiler Repair: A Critical Industry Need
While many large power and industrial plants have steam generators for electrical production and process energy needs, many other facilities, such as office buildings, college campuses, airports, etc., have one or more hot water boilers for comfort…
HRSG Tube Repair at a Northeastern Combined Cycle Power Plant
Evaporator and superheater tube repairs in heat recovery steam generators (HRSGs) can be quite complicated due to the typical multi-pressure configuration. Unlike conventional coal-fired units, where the waterwall tubes form the boiler enclosure,…
HRSG Duct Burner Replacement – Project Brief
SVI BREMCO recently completed a project involving the replacement of HRSG duct burners in a combined-cycle plant. These burners are critical for increasing steam production by being installed in the HRSG ductwork. They are especially important…
BEM Modeling in Exhaust System Design
To understand and assess dissipative and reactive silencer properties in rectangular or cylindrical exhaust ducts, SVI Dynamics, an SVI BREMCO company, uses a combination of 1-D algorithms, Boundary Element Method (BEM) modeling, and field…