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
• 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