• Cancellation Policy

Seminar Description

The course is leading participants through the mechanical part of major overhaul of a hydro power plant starting with technical assessment carefully tackling each assembly of the unit and associated equipment, going through the major aspects in detail. Based on real life samples, Technical specification and Scope of Work of major overhaul will be presented in practice proven techniques of RFP definition, write up and issuance. The samples of interactions with potential proponents from the RFP evaluation all the way through the contract grant will be carefully analyzed covering following equipment and intents: Inlet valve, spiral case, stay vanes, wicket gates, links and levers, operating ring, servomotors, head cover, bottom ring, discharge ring, draft tube, turbine runner (repair process of the old and selection of the new one), turbine shaft, shaft seal, greaseless bushings. Listed topics and equipment will be covered with photographs showing characteristic mode of failures, damages and details.

Course Highlights

• Projects definition creation
• Technical Specification
• Scope of Work with Cost Schedule
• RFP's for Mechanical Rehabilitation
• Pre bid meetings with Proponents
• Revisions of documents
• Correspondence, communication and clarification
• Coordinated activity with Projects and Supply Chain
• Intent clarification meetings
• Data exchange with contractor
• Contractual negotiations
• Price schedule negotiation
• Logistics prior to mobilization and along the project execution phase
• Workshop with a real project of your choice (pending disclosure of drawings and details of refurbishment attempt

Course Materials Include

Material of the course with handouts is compacted by hands on approach and with real life samples from multiple projects that authors have worked on and experienced through professional careers in Site Engineering, Project Engineering, Design, Consulting and Advisory positions on domestic and overseas joint venture hydro projects.

Who Should Attend

Course should be attended by managers, project engineers and engineers responsible for major mechanical overhauls set with a goal to upgrade and up rate aging hydro turbine units enabling those to perform successfully for another 20 to 30 years of service.

Instructors

Don Haber, P.Eng.

Don Haber is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario, Canada and has 29 years of experience with Ontario Power Generation and its predecessor company, Ontario Hydro. He has held various operating, maintenance and technical roles in the organization. He is currently the Technical Support Manager in the Asset Management Department of Niagara Plant Group responsible for engineering issues in OPGs hydroelectric generating stations in Niagara Falls and surrounding area.

Tihomir (Tim) Maricic, P.Eng. – DEI Danube Engineering International

Tihomir (Tim) Maricic graduated in Mechanical Engineering from University of Nis, Yugoslavia, in 1981. After the graduation he joined the crew of the builders of Iron Gates 2 Hydroelectric Development Project. For more than 10 years, through the variety of positions he has gained substantial and wide experience in hydro equipment design, manufacturing and installation. After moving to Canada, he has used this experience in international and domestic hydro projects as a design engineer, consultant and project engineer for service and rehabilitation. In 2006 Tim has joined Ontario Power Generation as a Senior Plant Engineer with the Asset Management Department of Niagara Plant Group. Tihomir Maricic is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.

Stanislav (Stan) Pejovic, Ph.D., P.Eng., Professor, Department of Civil Engineering – University of Toronto, University of Ryerson

Stanislav (Stan) Pejovic, was a Professor of Mechanical Engineering at the University of Belgrade, visiting Professor at the University of Singapore, Hong Kong, Sarajevo, Skoplje, Nis, to name a few. He is teaching at the University of Toronto and Ryerson University and has lectured on subjects related to energy, thermodynamics, physics, fluid mechanics, power plants, hydraulic transients, vibrations, stability, and resonance. He specializes in design, construction, commissioning, maintenance, troubleshooting and review of electric plants, hydraulic systems, pumps, turbines, and complex systems of thermal and nuclear plants. He is the author of several books. He has been designing and consulting engineer at “Energoprojekt”, Belgrade. Dr Stanislv (Cane / Stan) Pejovic is a licensed Professional Engineer in the Province of Ontario.

Cancellation Policy

Registered attendees unable to attend the event may designate a substitute, provided APEGBC receives written notification at least one business day prior to the event. Registration information for the substitute attendee should accompany the notice. If notice of cancellation of registration is received:

•  5 business days or more prior to the event, a refund will be processed
•  Less than 5 business days prior to the event, no refunds apply

Substitute registrants are permitted up to the day of the seminar and member/non-member fees will be applied. The organizers reserve the right to cancel the event if less than the minimum required participants have registered. Liability limited to registration fee.

APEGBC is an AIBC/CES registered provider offering an AIBC-Accredited activity for 13 Core Learning Units.

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