Project management. Experienced in fossil power plant inspection and condition assessment, including high energy piping and boiler components. Experienced in maintenance and repairs. Developed in-house welding and weld repair program, including writing policies and procedures and obtaining regulatory certification for a Texas Utility. Developed and implemented procedures and training for high energy pipe hanger inspection and maintenance. Conducted boiler combustion testing and tuning and burner balancing.
Recent work includes:
- Extensive boiler component and high energy piping condition assessment activities.
- Project management for over 50 acoustic emission tests of high energy piping,
including seamed and seamless main steam, hot reheat, and boiler link piping.
- Unit assessment and recommendations of cycling costs and potential improvements.
- Combustion turbine inlet air cooling system design, performance, and analysis.
- Condition assessment and recommendations for high energy piping and boiler
components.
EDUCATION AND PROFESSIONAL BACKGROUND
- BS, Mechanical Engineering, University of Tulsa, 1993
- Member, American Society of Mechanical Engineers
SELECTED REPORTS, PUBLICATIONS, AND INVITED LECTURES
TubeAlert Examination and Condition Assessment of Superheater Boiler Tubes at Ames Municipal Electric System, Unit 8, APTECH Report AES 06026079-2-1 (May 2006).
Walkdowns and Nondestructive Examinations of High Energy Piping at MidAmerican Energy Company Neal Generating Station, Unit 4, APTECH Report AES 05105942-2-1 (February 2006).
Main Steam and Hot Reheat Piping System Evaluations, Riverside Station, Unit 9, with M. Cohn, APTECH Report AES 05055772-2-1 (January 2006).
Nondestructive Examination of Unit 2 Main Steam Piping and INCOTEST Examination of Selected Areas for Flow Accelerated Corrosion Damage, APTECH Report AES 05025700-2-2 (September 2005).
TubeAlert Survey of the Superheater and Reheater Tubing at Lake Catherine 4, APTECH Report AES 05015636-2-1 (September 2005).
Nondestructive Examination of High Energy Piping and Hanger Attachments and Superheater TubeAlert at MidAmerican Energy Company, Neal 3, APTECH Report AES 04105565-2-1 (August 2005).
Nondestructive Examination of High Energy Piping and Hanger Attachments and Superheater TubeAlert at MidAmerican Energy Company, Neal 3, APTECH Report AES 04105531-2-1 (August 2005).
Life Management Plan for the High Energy Piping at the Moss Landing Combined Cycle Plant, with G. Grimsrud, APTECH Report AES 05045765-2-1 (June 2005).
TubeAlert Survey and High Energy Piping Examination at Council Bluffs, Unit 2, APTECH Report AES 04105541-2-1 (May 2005).
Intermediate Superheater, Secondary Superheater, and Reheater TubeAlert, and Examination of Superheater and Reheater Outlet Headers at Welsh Generating Station, Unit 3, APTECH Report AES 04035355-2-1 (January 2005).
TubeAlert Survey of Superheater and Reheater at Sundance, Unit 1, APTECH Report AES 04065441-2-1 (December 2004).
Martin Drake Unit 6 Life Assessment for Colorado, with T. Burnett, G. Grimsrud, and J. Lesiuk, APTECH Report AES 04045390-2-2 (July 2004).
Martin Drake Unit 5 Life Assessment for Colorado, with T. Burnett, G. Grimsrud, and J. Lesiuk, APTECH Report AES 04045390-2-1 (July 2004).
Martin Drake Unit 7 Life Assessment for Colorado, with T. Burnett, G. Grimsrud, and J. Lesiuk, APTECH Report AES 04045390-2-3 (July 2004).
TubeAlert Survey of Secondary Superheater at Council Bluffs, Unit 3, APTECH Report AES 04025322-2-1 (June 2004).
TubeAlert Examination of Superheater at Neal Generating Station, Unit 2, APTECH Report AES 04025314-2-1 (June 2004).
Nondestructive Examinations of High Energy Piping Systems at Council Bluffs 3, APTECH Report AES 04015285-2-1 (June 2004).
Neal 1 Waterwall Tube Failure Support, APTECH Report AES 03115230-2-1 (May 2004).
TubeAlert Examination of Finishing Superheater Tubing at Neal Station Unit 4, APTECH Report AES 03115223-2-1 (January 2004).
Piping Systems Evaluation at Neal Station, Unit 4, Part 2, APTECH Report AES 03095178-2-2 (January 2004).
TubeAlert Survey at Gordan Evans Station, Unit 2, APTECH Report AES 03035017-2-1 (November 2003).
Summary Report 2003 Hot Reheat Piping and Feedwater Heater Examinations, APTECH Report AES 03024976-2-1 (November 2003).
Nondestructive Examination for Boiler Corrosion Fatigue, Stanton Unit 1, Furnace Tubes, Fall 2003, APTECH Report AES 03095166-2-1a (October 2003).
Nondestructive and Metallurgical Examination of Selected Locations on High Energy Piping at Louisa Generating Station, APTECH Report AES 03035024-2-1 (July 2003).
Nondestructive Examination of Selected Components at Neal 3, APTECH Report AES 02094860-2-2 (January 2003).
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