TEServices News

Kyle has several years experience in a repair shop, setting up metallurgical lab, heat treatments, qualification of vendors, reverse engineering and creating inspection forms, hands-on repair including machining and inspection (Level II PT) and creating repair procedures. He is currently performing the daily assessment and evaluations in TEServices metallurgical lab, reverse engineering, setting up equipment, and vendor verification.

A new lab has been established and includes the sectioning, cold and hot mounting, grinding and polishing and chemical and electrochemical etching together with stereo and visual microscopy. Some mechanical testing (tensile, stress rupture and hardness) is also performed in the new facility together with heat treatments of metallurgical samples in air, argon, hydrogen, and vacuum up to 2200 F. IGT components can be inspected dimensionally and inspected using conventional NDT (visual, PT, MT, ET and UT) and advanced NDT (thermal imaging).

In order to continue providing our customers with the best possible service, a 6,000 square foot facility has been obtained. Currently, offices, meeting room, metallurgical and mechanical laboratory, and room for dimensional inspection and non-destructive testing facilities have been created. Therefore our phone and fax numbers have been changed to 281 867 1500 (phone) and 281 867 1501 (fax), see our new contact information.

With signing a letter of understanding GTUsers and Turbine End-user Services, Inc., Houston, TX (TEServices) have formalized the cooperation between themselves. TEServices will support GTUsers' customers, whom are mostly Frame 6 users located in Europe, with repair and bid specifications, audits, vendor verification, technical support, training, and metallurgical evaluations, including life assessments and failure analysis.

Turbine End-user Services, Inc., Houston, TX (TEServices) has been awarded a Study Project from EPRI Worldwide S.A. (Electric Power Research Institute, Inc). Together with end-users and repair facilities TEServices will up-date "REPAIR SPECIFICATIONS FOR GENERAL ELECTRIC MS 7 MODEL F / FA COMPONENTS" for EPRI members.

Turbine End-user Services, Inc., Houston, TX (TEServices) has been awarded a Study Project from EPRI Worldwide S.A. (Electric Power Research Institute, Inc). Together with end-users and Wood Group Fuel Systems, TEServices will create "REPAIR SPECIFICATIONS FOR GENERAL ELECTRIC MS 7 FUEL NOZZLES" for EPRI members.

Throughout the world TEServices is providing training courses. TEServices has recently given courses in the Netherlands and at the NTPC Kawas power station, India.

27 engineers were educated and trained concerning all aspects of IGT hot section components repair during a 4 day session last July.

Their active participation during the discussions and case studies (see picture) made the training a success.

• When and where?
This training course will be given on September 13, 14 and 15, 2006 at the VGT office, De Meern, the Netherlands. VGT is located close to Utrecht, within 30 minutes driving from Schiphol Airport, Amsterdam, Den Bosch or Arnhem.

• What is the Course Objective?
The objective of this course is to provide the metallurgical background so the participants can make, metallurgical, sound decisions concerning GT component refurbishment.

• Who should attend?
Employees of IGT refurbishment facilities or their vendors, who make sales, technical and production decisions, or have a supervising role of the repair and coating of IGT components.
Gas Turbine End-users and their employees who get involved in repair of IGT components for purchasing, technical, maintenance and operational decisions. It will enable them to understand the jargon of the refurbishment companies, make sound repair and coating decisions, create workscopes and request for quotes, review these quotes to select the best vendor, and follow the repair, coating and inspection.

• Education requirements
The training format has been proven suitable for degreed engineers, technicians and non-technicians.

The intention of this course is to provide the metallurgical background so the participants can make metallurgically sound decisions concerning GT component refurbishment. This session will provide basic metallurgy, understanding how Superalloys work and why heat treatments are required during the refurbishment process. This knowledge forms the base for other refurbishment technologies such as welding, brazing, stripping & cleaning, coating and NDT. For more information for this training or our 3-day training.

During the first week of 2005, TEServices successfully provided training to the co-workers of Thomassen Turbine in the Netherlands. This was the start of TEServices offering training courses world-wide. Please contact TEServices if you would like to have the 3-day training course "Metallurgical Aspects of IGT Component Repair" at your facility. For information concerning TEServices training course see training.

Turbine End-user Services, Inc., Houston, TX (TEServices) has been awarded a Study Project from EPRI Worldwide S.A. (Electric Power Research Institute Inc, Brussels, Belgium). Together with end-users and repair facilities TEServices will create "REPAIR SPECIFICATIONS FOR GENERAL ELECTRIC MS 9 MODEL F / FA COMPONENTS" for EPRI members.

TEServices is pleased to announce that Richard L. (Dick) Marksberry has joined its staff to lead TEServices Quality Program and perform Quality Audits for our customer prospective vendors. Dick has forty years of experience in the manufacturing and repair industry production: first as tool and die maker, supervisor, superintendent and Manager of Manufacturing. During the last 20 years, Dick developed and directed the Sulzer Hickham Inc. Quality Assurance (ISO 9000) and Environmental Management Systems (ISO14001). Dick is a Certified Lead Auditor and had conducted quality audits in and outside of the United States. With the addition of Dick, TEServices is closer to its goal of providing our customers with complete support of Industrial Gas Turbine component manufacturing, repair and coating.

To support TEServices growing business in Vendor Verification, Fred Briones has joined TEServices as per March 2004. Fred has more than 15 years experience in inspecting gas turbine components at Sulzer Hickham Industries. As chief inspector, no parts left their component or coating division without the inspection and review of Fred. TEServices is pleased that Fred joins the team and we are convinced that he is an asset for TEServices and its customers.

TEServices has given gas turbine end-users and repair facilities training in general metallurgy and superalloys, manufacture, repair and coating-processes. Special sessions have been developed to give engineers and others who are involved in acquisition, manufacturing, repair and coating of IGT components, the necessary back ground to make sound metallurgical decisions. Courses can be held at your facility.

For more information: Training.

Turbine End-user Services, Inc., Houston, TX (TEServices) has been awarded a study project from EPRI (Electric Power Research Institute Inc., Palo Alto, CA). The project involves investigating the use of high temperature brazing for repairs to combustion turbine components. TEServices will be examining the advantages, disadvantages, application and service providers in North America and Europe of this technology.

Turbine End-User Services Inc.(TEServices), has been established this October, by Hans van Esch, to help turbine end-users increasing the reliability and maintainability of their turbines, while reducing the costs of turbine ownership. TEServices supports turbine end-users, end-users vendors and end-user organizations with: metallurgical evaluation of superalloys and coatings, assessments of turbine components, creating competitive and comparable quotes for refurbishments, vendor verification, setting up turbine components management systems and other consultancies. For more information visit website TEServices.us or contact Hans van Esch, phone 281 291 0447, hvanesch@TEServices.us.

With sadness we have to report that our friend and co-worker Dick (Richard L.) Marksberry passed away January 3, 2011 at an age of 71 at Pearland, TX. After his retirement from Hickham Industries (now Sulzer Turbo Services Houston), Dick supported TEServices with audits, verifications, technical and other advice. Dick was born to William and Lillian Marksberry (Durham) on January 19, 1939 in Cincinnati, Ohio. Dick proudly served his country in the United States Marine Corps from 1956-1958. He is the author of 2 published works titled "Boot Camp & Beyond" and most recently, "The Magnificent Infidels". Dick is survived by his loving wife of 32 years, Christine, sons; Richard Russell, Jeffrey Marksberry, Steven Marksberry, Ronald Russell, and John Marksberry, daughter, Barbara Dussetschleger, brothers; Roger Marksberry, Terry Marksberry, Greg Marksberry, sisters; Penny Wochner, Tami Stewart, 19 grandchildren, and 14 great-grandchildren. We are wishing the family strength and our prayers are with them. Not only will Dick's support be missed at TEServices but also his friendship and especially his typical humor.