Abstract
The on-line avilability of the five Frame-7E
gas turbine generators installed at the 465MW
Lyondell Cogeneration Plant was 90% and 95.2%
respectively for the first two years of operation
(1986-87). The 140MW steam turbine generator
availability was well over 98% each year. Such
favorable results are due primarily to the
(1) formal training programs utilized before and
continued after plant startup, (2) redundancies
designed into the critical components of the plant,
(3) the immediate actions taken on failures or
near-failures, (4) a sound preventive maintenance
program, and (5) improvements performed promptly
on discovered design, operating, and maintenance
weaknesses uncovered during the early months of
operation.
Theisen, R. E. (1988). Operating and Maintaining a 465MW Cogeneration Plant. Energy Systems Laboratory (http://esl.eslwin.tamu.edu). Available electronically from
https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /92392.