POWER GENERATION
NEWSMAKERS
CHROMALLOY: Chromalloy has
named Tim Ulles general manager of
the company’s gas turbine engine repair
and maintenance
operation near
Atlanta, Georgia,
U.S.A. The facility
that Ulles will be
overseeing pro-
vides gas turbine
engine repairs, re-
pair development,
overhaul, manufac-
turing and coatings for a wide range of
turbine engine models.
T. Ulles
Willibald J. Fischer, program manager for the SGT5-8000H, standing in front of the newly
launched gas turbine.
the instrumentation of the standard
instrumentation and control system
(I&C), these sensors measure temperatures, pressures, strains, flows, acceleration and vibrations encountered during
part-load and base-load operation. In
addition to the standard data acquisition
system (DAS) of the plant, a second DAS
was set up in containers located just outside the main building. This allowed the
test center to link with the engineering
headquarters of Muelheim, Germany,
and Orlando, Florida, U.S.A., so that
100 engineers could view the tests in
Irsching in real time.
The system is still in place and will
serve the same scope when testing the
combined-cycle configuration of the
plant. Once the testing program is
completed, all the supplementary
instrumentation and the DAS contain-
ers will be removed and the plant
handed over to E.ON as a turnkey
power plant.
MAN SE: MAN SE has named Georg
Pachta-Reyhofen the company’s exec-
utive board spokesman, effective Jan.
1, 2010. The Supervisory Board,
which appointed Pachta-Reyhofen, also
recommended him as executive board
spokesman and executive board mem-
ber responsible for employee relations
of their subsidiary, MAN Nutzfahr-
zeuge AG.
CATERPILLAR:
Caterpillar Marine
Power Systems has
named Alan Naisby
as MaK Asia man-
aging director.
Since joining Cat-
erpillar in 1998,
Naisby has man-
aged a variety of
marketing teams in the United States
and Germany for Caterpillar Fuel
Systems, and will now be based in
Shanghai, China.
A. Naisby
The SGT5-8000H gas turbine in the Berlin, Germany, factory.
Wärtsilä: Wärtsilä has appointed
Markus Pietikäinen vice president of
Group Treasury and Financial Services,
ruary 2010.
M. Pietikäinen
