Winter Quarter Internship hours

January hours= 102
February hours=120
March hours=121.5
Total hours for Winter Quarter Diesel Internship program =343.5

Solar Mars 90 Turbine

3/12-3/17=39.5 hours

This is a Mars 90 tubine it has 13,000 horsepower.

Working on Scruber



Scrubber unit top pipe is a gas inlet. The  gas runs through filters  inside on left side of unit and cycles through to right side outlet. the two bottom boots are for extracting any liquid in the gas before it goes on into the turbine to be compressed and pushed on through the mainline.

This is the inside of a filter separator also known as  scrubber.  A scrubber is a filtration system that is used to filter all particles in the main gas line before it enters the compressor it has a total of 64 six foot filters. We replaced the filters and the oring on this unit.  



  The ring that holds the door to the scrubber is held together by 2 bolts and a safety pin that compress to tighten the door. There is a rubber oring to seal the gas from leaking out which is set in a grove which must be lubed with lubriplate to prevent from rolling it out when tightening the clam shell door.

Air respirator and fire retardant and chemical retardant protective gear is necessary to work on a scrubber..



Finishing up the Exhaust job

Total hours for last 2 weeks ending3/3/2012and3/10/2012 is
82 hours including computer research

View of top of engine block.

Last week I posted some pictures of the work done to the Clarke TCV 12  I learned alot about the engine after helping Brandon on the exhaust job. The project took us 8 days primarily because of the size of exhaust and all the coolant and gas lines needed to be taken out of the way  to get to the exhaust.On an engine this size everything needs to be handled with an overhead crane.We installed the new gaskets to the exhaust an also to the coolant and fuel lines and replaced some gaskets on one the engines compressors.I then went to help Teason (aka T-Bone ) on calibrating some of the pressure sensors on the 2000 hp Ingersol Rand engines he monitors Where he was teaching me how to calibrate the sensors which monitor pressures and temperatures on the engines all computerized and are also remotely monitored from the Utah main site.I also spent time learning how to adjust and replace  intake exhaust and fuel valves on the Ingersol Rand engine monitored by Ray he taught me how to set the valve lash on it I have added some more pictures and will post more during the week.

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Manifold Gasket Replacement hours for the Month of Febuary are 120 hours

The two twenty inch pipes below connect to the exhaust on the engine. 



The picture below shows the exhaust.  Next to the exhaust is the coolant pipe. 


The picture below shows the 3 compressors tied into the engine.  Each compressor has an individual arm connected to the crankshaft. 



As you can see in the picture below the 6 ports of the exhaust.  Each exhaust tube weighs 8,500 lbs and has a 20" diameter.







Each one of these is a head on one side of the engine.  There is a total of 12 heads to the engine.



Below is a picture of the top of the engine block where the exhaust is placed.  Each hole is where we will be installing the new gaskets.The smaller holes you can see are for the coolant ports. 




To take off the exhaust was one entire day. 

Internship at Williams Pipeline

Today, I started the job shadow position at Williams. I started with an introduction to the employees working there.  After an exstensive safety awareness insight of their ESD (Emergency Shutdown Procedure) I then wathched  thier PPE video,  we proceded to work in Unit B on the Clark TCV12.  The Clark TCV12 runs at 4,000 hp.we are working on replacing the  exhaust  manifold gaskets.7am -4pm

Share the knowledge

 My Cap 101 project was a hit , In the project I created a PowerPoint presentation of the work I have done in the shop and inserted some of the videos taken on the c6 Cummings engine assembly.I also linked it to my blog. .My intention was to make the class aware of the Diesel program and the projects I had worked on. I was  teaching  them to create a blog and store  information.straight from their smart phones. 

Monday.We worked on installing main bearing caps and torqued down to specs. Ian,Chris and I met with the ASBTC Senate on Wednesday and spoke to them on the requested funds for the Denmark xchange program. Total hours for week ending 2/25  are 28 hours 

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