5,430GPM Heater Drain Pump Overhaul
5,430GPM Heater Drain Pump Overhaul IR Model 29 APKD-6 Allen Pump received a contract to overhaul an IR 29 APKD-6 Heater Drain Pump for a 1100MW Unit. The internal element removed from the pump well is driven by a 1,250HP motor, 1800RPM, 5,430GPM, 770TDH at 370F. The component observations, corrective action plan and final documentation [...]
650,000GPM Worthington Major Overhaul
Providence River Army Corps of Engineers were scheduled to run a typical functional test on their Worthington Hurricane Barrier Pumps. The Pumps function is to protect the city of Providence when high seas surge. In an event the gates are closed, and water is pumped out of this river bay. When unit 5 was started [...]
Sunday – Saturday Turnkey Emergency Circulating Water
Johnston, RI: Chas G. Allen received the call from the plant on Sunday to evaluate the 58,000GPM Johnston unit and found that the shaft had broken internally. As a turnkey service CGA provide field personnel to remove the equipment on a 24/7 basis. The unit was transported to our service center, disassembled and evaluated for [...]
In Place Circulating Water Pump Field Repair
Somerset, MA The station was in the 2nd week of a scheduled 4 week outage when during a routine cleaning of the intake pit it was discovered that the outer column had numerous holes 6” in diameter with serious erosion at the lower flange to the casing. Chas G. Allen got an urgent phone call. [...]
Mussel Impacted Pump
Connecticut: Coming out of a spring outage this pump read 40psi Discharge equating to approximately 840 GPM. In May the pump was observed outputting 10psi Discharge and guessed to be outputting 30gpm. Gauges were replaced, numbers confirmed and Chas Allen Pump was answering the phone and scheduling a visit. Allen sent our tractor trailer [...]