In the Monria Team Ambassadors private discussion I mentioned my limited time over the next six weeks due to my work schedule and explained some of the stuff I do for a living. It was suggested that I post it here because it was interesting.
For those who are curious, I work in the power plant and we have a major outage right now, I have two 200 Megawatt turbines torn apart for overhaul and a lot of other jobs as well and it will last until about Mid April. Power plants don't go down much, maybe once a year or every two years for all the work to fix the stuff. This is for obvious reasons, people love their electricity and when we are down, that means we have to buy power if we can't generate enough on our own. They don't like generators NOT spinning so busy we are to get them back up as quickly as safely possible. Experience teaches me that towards the very end, 12 hour days turns into 18 and 20 hour days, sometimes more come crunch time. Last outage I did 38 straight hours getting the generators back online the final two days but we did it. Anyways that's why I am a bit scarce lately.
I mean how many people get to say they have 230 KV a few feet above their heads while working though it is a bit un nerving at times when your hair starts to stand on end or you see the fog sprites... gulp...
On that though, security has tightened up a bit over the years so we can't really stream it BUT, back in 2012 we did one of our other turbines, this was a 300 megawatt CFB steam unit, we did an open and inspect and some work on the turbine. My group had a major electrical re work to do as well, we moved the entire control room... anyways, we mounted a camera on a handrail out of the way with a shutter speed of one frame i think it was every 60 seconds and tied it all into a movie. I didn't but one of the guys in our group did this.
Here is a youtube link if you want to see a fast forward turbine tear down and re assemble.
P.S. There is another power plant down the road from us, back in the days they could not stay online to save their souls, so we nick named them 'The Dark Side' since the lights were always out and 'dark' over there... the nick name kind of stuck so that is the mention of 'dark side' here in the video.
sluggo
For those who are curious, I work in the power plant and we have a major outage right now, I have two 200 Megawatt turbines torn apart for overhaul and a lot of other jobs as well and it will last until about Mid April. Power plants don't go down much, maybe once a year or every two years for all the work to fix the stuff. This is for obvious reasons, people love their electricity and when we are down, that means we have to buy power if we can't generate enough on our own. They don't like generators NOT spinning so busy we are to get them back up as quickly as safely possible. Experience teaches me that towards the very end, 12 hour days turns into 18 and 20 hour days, sometimes more come crunch time. Last outage I did 38 straight hours getting the generators back online the final two days but we did it. Anyways that's why I am a bit scarce lately.
I mean how many people get to say they have 230 KV a few feet above their heads while working though it is a bit un nerving at times when your hair starts to stand on end or you see the fog sprites... gulp...
On that though, security has tightened up a bit over the years so we can't really stream it BUT, back in 2012 we did one of our other turbines, this was a 300 megawatt CFB steam unit, we did an open and inspect and some work on the turbine. My group had a major electrical re work to do as well, we moved the entire control room... anyways, we mounted a camera on a handrail out of the way with a shutter speed of one frame i think it was every 60 seconds and tied it all into a movie. I didn't but one of the guys in our group did this.
Here is a youtube link if you want to see a fast forward turbine tear down and re assemble.
P.S. There is another power plant down the road from us, back in the days they could not stay online to save their souls, so we nick named them 'The Dark Side' since the lights were always out and 'dark' over there... the nick name kind of stuck so that is the mention of 'dark side' here in the video.
sluggo
