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TRI Patents

4,867,006 
Rotating Shaft Mounted Actuating Mechanism 

5,144,862 
Rotating shaft mounted actuating mechanism 

5,188,170 
Rocker connection 

5,207,903 
Filter stand assembly 

5,303,801 
Brake assembly having an adjustable yoke 

5,315,825 
Oil system for constant input speed fluid drive 

5,331,811 
Fluid drive 

5,438,755 
Method of making a monolithic shrouded impeller 

5,505,662 
Quick disconnect 

5,573,374 
Monolithic shrouded impeller 

5,610,500 
Method of converting turbine driven generator into a synchronous condenser 

5,886,505 
Apparatus and method for bringing on line a large synchronous condenser that cannot be started by an across the line start

6,712,516
Bearing spring plate pedestal

6,769,248 
Fluid coupling for mobile equipment

7,171,870
Geared fluid drive with parallel start-up capability

7,237,958
Bearing stiff plate pedestal

Other patents pending

 

Case Studies

TRI solved some very perplexing problems over the years. As is often the case, the first step is to identify accurately what the problem is, and then to design options to solve the problem. The following case studies are among many that have been solved by TRI. Should you have a similar problem, or a new problem, that is related to high amplitude vibrations – synchronous (“1-X”) or sub-synchronous, bearing damage, and/or fluid drive and flexible coupling issues, please contact TRI. TRI is interested in addressing such problems for our clients.

Often a client realizes he has a maintenance problem, and has been living with it for years believing that “that is just the way it is”. In most cases, TRI can identify the problem, and work with the client to bring TRI’s engineering and manufacturing skills to bear on the issue, and resolve it in a timely and cost-effective manner. No machine is too large or too small for us.

Case Studies will be added from time to time. There is no chronology among the cases

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+ Rotor Vibration and Bearings for Turbine-Generators, Steam , Gas, Hydro

+ Fluid Drives, all types

+ Journal Bearings and Thrust Bearings

+ Mechanical Components

+ Oil Systems

+ Synchronous Condensers, Rotating

+ Vibration Monitoring Systems

+ Electronic Overspeed Protection to Replace Mechanical Type

+ LM 6000 Gas Turbine Installation

 

Solved “Steam Whirl” of High-Pressure Turbine Rotor of 1000 MW Large Steam Turbine-Generator.

Large Amplitude Sub-synchronous Vibrations in LP Turbines and Generators Caused by High Unbalance (Synchronous) Force Conditions

Solved High Amplitude Sub-synchronous Rotor Vibrations of 500 MW Generator Rotor Due to Shorted Turns with High Field Amps.

Performed "Machinery Audit" of Multiple Trains of Gas Turbines, Gearboxes, and Barrel Compressors for Natural Gas, Including Factory Tests.

Repair of Severly Damaged Journals and Bearings of Turbines and Generators

Upgraded Bearings for Gearboxes of GE Frame 5 Gas Turbine-Generator to Handle 30 MW Instead of Original 19.6 MW.

Upgraded Bearings in Gearbox of Westinghouse 501 Gas Turbine-Gearbox-Generator to Permit Operation at Very Low Loads. (Bearings in Gearbox were damaged at Very Low Loads).

Extend Maximum Generation and Increase Efficiency in New High Pressure and Intermediate Pressure Turbines of 400 to 800 MW Large Steam Turbine-Generators.

Eliminate the Problem of High Amplitude Vibrations in the Middle of the Load Range of Large Steam Turbine-Generators

Replace 4-Pad LST-G Westinghouse Bearings in the Number 1 Bearing Location Because Many of these Bearings Do Not Have the Capability to Align the Rotor Properly

Source of Replacement GE Elliptical Bearings.

Source of Replacement GE Tilting Pad Bearings

Provided New Combined Journal and Thrust Bearing of all Tilting Pad Design in 1800 rpm Double Flow LP Turbine, Because Existing Fixed Bore Journal Bearing and Tapered Land Thrust Bearing Could Not Accommodate any Relative Movement Between the Rotor and the Pedestal.

Provided New Combined Journal and Thrust Bearing of all Tilting Pad Design to Solve Load Limitation Problem due to Bearing Damage in Fixed Geometry Combined Journal and Thrust Bearings of GE 60 MW to 150 MW, 3600 rpm, Large Steam Turbine-Generators.

Provide New TRI Align-A-Pad ® Bearings to Minimize Damage During "Loss of Lube Oil" Events in a 4-Bearing GE Small Turbine-Generator. , leading to odd sized journals.

Emergency Lube Oil Pump for this Steam Turbine-Generator Repeatedly Failed to Start Pumping Oil When Needed. For this Reason, and Others, TRI Redesigned and Provided a Completely New Lube Oil System

Rotating Synchronous Condenser Conversion and Start-up Packages for Large Generators and Motors

Upgraded Lube Oil Systems for Fluid Drives to Solve Over-heating Problems.

Installed Complete Proximity Vibration Monitoring Systems for American-Standard Fluid Drives.

TRI Rebuilt American-Standard (American Blower) Fluid Drives with Pilot Bearings, According to TRI Precision Standards.

TRI Rebuilt American-Standard (American Blower) Fluid Drives to Remove Pilot Bearings, According to TRI Precision Standards.

TRI Rebuilt Voith Geared Fluid Drives from Parts, Making Parts as Required.

Complete New TRI Fan Bearings to Replace Obsolete and Damaged Bearings for Very Old Sturtevant Fans – No Spare Parts of Original Design were Available.

Complete New Fan Bearings with New Pressure Fed, Externally Cooled, Lube Oil Systems to Replace Obsolete and Problem Plagued Sturtevant Fan Bearings.

TRI Rebuilt Complete American-Standard (American Blower) Fluid Drives to Original Specifications, with Upgraded TRI Steel Backed Babbitt Lined Journal Bearings.

Complete New Variable Speed Fluid Drives for ID Fan Service With New Oil Conditioning System.

Complete New Variable Speed Fluid Drives for ID Fan Service With New Oil Conditioning System. TRI Designed, Manufactured and Installed Two 6000 hp, 590 rpm Fluid Drives in a 400 MW Lignite Plant. These TRI Fluid Drives saved approximately 2 MW at Full Load, and more at reduced loads.

Custom Fluid Drives for Large Compressors and Large Pumps

Improved Thrust Bearing for Hydro Turbine-Generator.

Upgraded Thrust Bearings for Large Steam Turbine-Generators.

Special Flexible Couplings for Shafting.

Remanufactured Thrust Bearings for Rock Crushers.

New Fluid Couplings for Diesel engine driven wood chippers and allied equipment under the name of Premier Drives ®.

New Fluid Couplings for motor driven pumps.

Fluid Drives for Variable Input Speed and Constant Output Speed.

A large class of American-Standard Fluid Drives is used in "shaft driven Boiler Feed Pump Service.

Fluid Drives, in reduced pressure or sliding pressure operation at low power output conditions experience output shaft speeds that are very low.

Fluid Drives for Boiler Feed Pumps in Super-Critical Boiler Service.

Fluid Drives with Input diaphragm Couplings

Replacement Steady-Rest Bearings for the Extension Shafts in Front Standards of Westinghouse Turbine-Generators.

Eliminate an Important "Root Cause" of Failure of Last Stage Buckets.

TRI has manufactured numerous pairs of axial flow fans (blowers) to replace fans with broken blades (vanes).

Stiffening turbine-generator structures in a way to suppress axial vibrations

A GE LM 5000 gas turbine was replaced with an LM 6000 GT using a Hot End Drive to power a Generator.

Correlations Between LP Turbine Vibrations and Condenser Back-pressure and Between LP Turbine Vibrations and Condensate Temperature. And Recommendations for Improvements

 

 

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