Proceedings: 1990 EPRI gas turbine procurement seminar

Conference · Sat Jun 01 00:00:00 EDT 1991

OSTI ID:5522305

McDonald, B L; Miller, M N ^[1]

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1. Carnot, Tustin, CA (USA)

This seminar presents information that enables utilities to implement more cost-effective procurements for gas turbine and combined-cycle power generation equipment. A systematic approach to specification and permitting procedures can lower unit life-cycle cost. APPROACH. Thirty-two staff members from 25 utilities met in Danvers, Massachusetts, October 9--11, 1990. Speakers representing utilities, vendors, and EPRI contractors presented material on recent procurement and startup experiences, permitting considerations, specification strategy, bid evaluation techniques, and a vendor's perspective of utility procurements. KEY POINTS. The seminar focused on specification features, procurement procedures, and bid evaluation techniques designed to implement life-cycle cost-effective procurement consistent with the plant mission. Speakers highlighted the following issues: Experiential case histories of recent procurements and startups, emphasizing how to design procurement procedures that improve plant operating economics; Current trends in permitting for NO{sub x} compliance and recent permitting experience; Quantifiable evaluations of vendors' bids for RAM-related characteristics; The means to obtain specifically desired but nonstandard equipment features.

• Research Organization: Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States); Carnot, Tustin, CA (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: EPRI; Electric Power Research Inst., Palo Alto, CA (United States)
• OSTI ID: 5522305
• Report Number(s): EPRI-GS-7358; CONF-9010388-
• Resource Relation: Conference: 1990 Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) gas turbine procurement seminar, Danvers, MA (United States), 9-11 Oct 1990
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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29 ENERGY PLANNING
POLICY AND ECONOMY
99 GENERAL AND MISCELLANEOUS//MATHEMATICS, COMPUTING, AND INFORMATION SCIENCE
20 FOSSIL-FUELED POWER PLANTS
42 ENGINEERING
EQUIPMENT
PROCUREMENT
GAS TURBINES
AVAILABILITY
BIDS
COMBINED CYCLES
NITROGEN OXIDES
POWER GENERATION
PROPERTY MANAGEMENT
RELIABILITY
SPECIFICATIONS
CHALCOGENIDES
MACHINERY
MANAGEMENT
NITROGEN COMPOUNDS
OXIDES
OXYGEN COMPOUNDS
THERMODYNAMIC CYCLES
TURBINES
TURBOMACHINERY
296000* - Energy Planning & Policy- Electric Power
990100 - Management
200104 - Fossil-Fueled Power Plants- Components
421000 - Engineering- Combustion Systems