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Gas Turbine Failure Analysis

Edif ERA provides independent root cause analysis and failure investigation services for gas turbine failures. A thorough investigation is important to minimize the risk of repeat failures and determine the root causes, which may require a more in-depth technical investigation than what plant personnel can provide due to biases. Edif ERA draws on expertise in gas turbine design, operation, and maintenance to conduct a systematic investigation using frameworks like fishbone analysis. The objectives are to identify the root causes and make recommendations to prevent future issues.

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Gas Turbine Failure Analysis

Edif ERA provides independent root cause analysis and failure investigation services for gas turbine failures. A thorough investigation is important to minimize the risk of repeat failures and determine the root causes, which may require a more in-depth technical investigation than what plant personnel can provide due to biases. Edif ERA draws on expertise in gas turbine design, operation, and maintenance to conduct a systematic investigation using frameworks like fishbone analysis. The objectives are to identify the root causes and make recommendations to prevent future issues.

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Gas turbine failure investigation

Improving asset safety and reliability

Services Root cause analysis and implications


• Independent technical review Failures can occur even in the best run power plant. When they happen, there is an
inevitable tension between efforts to return a turbine to service as quickly as possible and
• OEM liaison
carrying out a failure investigation.
• Root cause analysis
To minimise the likelihood of a repeat failure, it is necessary to carry out an appropriate
• Engineering recommendations
investigation. An immediate question is, who should carry this out? The power station, the
on future risk minimisation
OEM, the loss adjustor or an independent party?
• Return-to-service support
Some turbine failures, as in other types of equipment, can be satisfactorily investigated
• Expert witness in litigation and
by the plant engineering personnel. However, many failures require a more in-depth
arbitration. technical investigation. Additionally, the natural biases and vested interests of the various
parties may interfere with the determination of the root cause(s) behind the event.

Edif ERA can act independently, or in conjunction with other interested parties such as loss
adjustors and the OEM, in carrying out a suitable root cause analysis.
Experience includes:
• Turbine blades and nozzles: • Combustors: • Compressors:
Many different unit types. • General Electric: Frame 9FA • General Electric: Frame 6B, 7EA,
• Discs: • Westinghouse: 701D 9FA, LM6000

• General Electric: Frame 9FA • Siemens: SGT 600, 1000 • Siemens: SGT 700, 1000, 4000

• Westinghouse: 701DA • Alstom: Model 11D, 13E1, E2, GT26. • Alstom: Model 11D

• Fiat: TG20 • Nuovo Pignone: PGT 10.

• Siemens: SGT 100 • Other components: SGT 1000,


• Alstom: Model 13E2. Solar Titan.

In carrying out an investigation, Edif ERA can draw upon its Recommendations
knowledge and understanding of gas turbine design, degradation, • Identify realistic engineering steps which can be taken to break
repair, operation and maintenance. the chain of causation
• Recommend additional monitoring or control steps which
This is then combined with a systematic investigation framework,
should be put in place.
such as fishbone or ‘cause and effect’.

Expert witness
The objectives of the work are to identify the root cause(s)
and to make sound engineering recommendations to avoid • Edif ERA has direct experience of preparing expert witness
repeat failures. statements and appearing in court for litigation and
arbitration hearings.
The main stages are:

Site investigation
• Interview staff connected with the failure event
• Witness disassembly of the machine
• Conduct initial examination of the components
• Secure parts for more detailed examination and
quarantine them.

Data collection and review


• Review short and long-term operational data
• Review maintenance records.

Component evaluation
• Metallurgical examination of damaged and
undamaged components
• Characterisation of failure processes, eg thermal fatigue
cracking, attack from inside the blade, creep, inappropriate
heat treatment, defective or inadequate repairs.

Analytical considerations
• Carry out relevant engineering analyses. These could be
related to thermodynamic performance, heat transfer and
component temperatures, fluid flow, fracture mechanics
and crack growth.

Conclusions
• Identify the root cause(s) through a process of systematic
investigation and elimination of potential factors
• These could be technical and/or human factors.

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To discover more please email [email protected]


or visit our website at www.edifgroup.com

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