Case Studies
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Highlights
Benefits
- Improved reliability, availability, and performance
- Faster troubleshooting, maintenance cost savings, higher operating efficiency
Features
- Advanced digital technologies and proven engineering expertise
- Continuous monitoring, diagnostics, and support; expert root-cause analysis and remediation
- Performance optimization and emissions management
Applications
- Energy applications including oil and gas, thermal, geothermal, co-generation, solar, hydrogen, and CCUS
- Industrial power generation, mechanical drive, heating and cooling
Overview
Remote monitoring and diagnostics
- Online monitoring of turbomachinery assets health, performances, and emissions
- Data collection and processing by proprietary analytics leveraging 25+ years of experience and more than 1,700 assets monitored worldwide
- 24/7/365 experienced Baker Hughes experts to support anywhere in the world
- Early warnings, technical assessments, recommendations, and decision‑support in case of unexpected events, failures, or trips
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Thrust bearing load
- This digital solution identifies potential overloading/underloading stress by continuously monitoring thrust‑bearing operational loading for aeroderivative gas turbines
- Corrective actions are suggested to avoid running in off-design conditions and optimize the entire engine lifecycle through orifice tuning
- Combine with Maintenance Flexibility capabilities to safely extend maintenance intervals through asset degradation risk monitoring
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Trip-reduction program
- Our trip-reduction program (TRP) increases turbomachinery reliability and minimizes production losses by identifying and eliminating the causes of recurring trips—either from issues with the unit itself or from wider plant operations
- Expert technical analysis of emergency shutdown and failed startup delivers suggested corrective actions to be implemented across fleet
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Performance indicator and logistics optimizing tool
- Monitor and analyze equipment performance and major downtime contributors in your compression and power generation trains. Identify major downtime contributors in your fleet
- Record planned and unplanned maintenance events along with relevant systems information and operating indicators (reliability, availability, MTBM, MTBF, MTTR, etc.), calculated based ISO standards
- Fleet analysis based on specific segmentation criteria such as technology, equipment type, industry, or service class
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Remote combustion tuning
- Baker Hughes expert engineers perform combustion tuning remotely, increasing turbomachinery availability and ensuring quality and timely response, with no need to travel to site
- You can always count on the best support, thanks to remote iCenter™ expertise, to enhance monitoring and troubleshooting with valuable insights and suggestions
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Control system advanced service
Remote service for advanced support and troubleshooting on machine control systems, leveraging on Service Engineering control specialist.
Main features:
Proactive
- Control systems diagnostic alarm monitoring 24/7
- Periodic assessment of control system health (quarterly)
On demand
- Remote connection to HMI
- Remote troubleshooting with live data
- Remote support: implement settings fix
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