Involvement With Professional Organizations
NEC engineers have recently been active with the following industry professional organizations, serving on committees or participating at events sponsored by these organizations:
- International Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
- Power Engineering Society
- Industry Applications Society sections for:
- Pulp & Paper, including PPIC
- Petrochemicals, including PCIC
- Industrial Electric Motors & Drives Conference (IEMDC)
- American Society of Mechanical Engineers
- Power Division
- Technical & administrative committees including ASME Electric Power committees and Hydrovison program committee
- Power Division
- International Council on Large Electric Systems (CIGRE)
- CIGRE Sessions
- EPRI
- Annual Steam Turbine-Generator Workshop
Publications by NEC Engineers
The titles below are a small sampling of published technical articles by NEC Engineers. Our online technical library includes these and many other titles, as well as our Specialized Engineering Solutions™ and our Technical Maintenance Memos™.
- Electric Power 1999: Preventive and Predictive Maintenance Activities for Improving Generator Reliability
- Hydrovision 2000: Repair and Replacement Considerations for Old Hydrogenrator Stator Cores
- Hydro 2000: Advances in Hydrogenerator Refurbishment Technology
- EPRI 2001 International Workshop on Maintaining the Integrity of Generator Cores: Riverbend 4 & 5 Stator Core and Coil Failure
- ASME Power 2004: Rewind and Core Restack of AEP Conesville #5 Generator
- IEEE Pulp & Paper 2005 (won the Author's Award): Reconditioning Pulp and Paper Mill Generators for Reliable Service
- Power Gen Europe 2005: Condition Assessment Evaluation & Planned Design Improvements for the Cowes Generator
- 2005 IEEE Electrical Insulation Conference (EIC): Performance Evaluation of Pump Generator Stator Coils with Corona Resistant Polyimide Film
- ASME Power 2006, co-located with Electric Power: Deterioration Mechanisms in Recent Air Cooled Turbine Generators
- Power Magazine, March 2006: Include Generators and Exciters in Your Outage Inspections
- 2006 IRIS Rotating Machinery Conference: Refurbishment of Large Air-Cooled Generators
- 2007 IRIS Rotating Machinery Conference: Innovative Repair Approach to Rotor Pole to Pole Connector Failures
- 5th EPRI Turbine Generator Technology Transfer Workshop, 2008: Stator Winding Failure Due to Spark Erosion

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