Recording 56 days as the shortest time for doing a major overhaul on 13E2 gas turbine in Persian Gulf Power Plant

Eng. Majid Zarei, a board member of TABA knowledge based Engineering and Services co. and project manager of the two gas unit overhaul of GT13E2 turbine has announced recording 56 days as the shortest time for doing a major overhaul on 13E2 gas turbine in Persian Gulf Power Plant.

Announcing this news, he mentioned that completing this project in such short time is a great achievement which was the result of the Power industry’s trust in our company, night and day effort of our team and efficient supervision of Persia Gulf Power Production Management Company. In this power plant, the cooperation of a knowledge based company and the turbine manufacturer, GE was observed for the first time with a package of main parts supply, presenting technical services and completing the overhaul in a 59 days period contact.

This contract was one of the biggest overhaul contracts last year with the value of 55 billion Tomans, which TABA company could obtain customer trust by offering a competitive price with the support of the main manufacturer, long term warranty along with a shorter time consuming overhaul in a very competitive atmosphere.

While by having a lot of problems, achieving that record was at risk. Also knowing that the previous overhaul was accomplished in 100 days, completing this project in 56 days, even 3 days earlier than what was mentioned in the contract, was unbelievable.

He also mentioned a lot of problems putting this project at risk such as exchange rate fluctuation for about 50%, liquidity injection issues, environmental pressure, management changes in the employer company, strategic part supply in a one month period, customs issues and sometimes unpredictable tools defects.

But with daily and even hourly follow ups and with precise planning we could connect the unit to the network in a 56 days period while unit 21 of this power plant had faced an unsolved problem in using the second fuel for years. But with participation of our knowledge based company and the main manufacturer we could activate the gas fuel consumption and this turbine is now using both.

The project manager announced that we are doing the overhaul of unit 31 and a marvelous job was done here as providing a 10-tonne combustion chamber to the outer segment carrier of zone 1 of the turbine from GE Co. in Switzerland about 10 days after signing the contract which coincided with Nowrouz holidays. But with our team’s effort we could carry, clear and deliver this part and continue to assemble the Unit 31 urgently, which has been remarkably fast in the service industry across the company.

"Even though we have worked well in the project so far, according to the honorable employer, but the company's strategy is moving from good to excellent and we plan to make more customer enhancements from the perspective of the time of work, the improvement of service quality, and the provision of upgrade solutions, more value for the customer. To this end, the company has a comprehensive agenda in order to present new literature in the country's repair industry using the technologies of the day to provide better management to reduce the cost of repairs and shorten the time." he said.

Mr. Majid Zarei announced at the end that in this project, we have managed to successfully practice group work literature, including the cooperation of the executive, engineering and commercial teams of the company in order to localize repair knowledge away from environmental pressures by cooperation with the company GE and with knowledge management, the company announces that in the year of national production it has been able to interpret the self-respecting self-image in this area. He stated that we would like to thank all the stakeholders in this project, especially the mother company of thermal power plant, Gulf Power Company and Gulf Power management Company, and we hope that we will be able to have innovative solutions for the power plant with the support of the government from knowledge-based companies.