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Winning team of the CANADIAN NUCLEAR SOCIETY
Innovation Achievement
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Innovation Achievement
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Award Winning Team CNS/CNA Honours and Awards Committee presented Liburdi NRU Project Team with the CNS Innovative Achievement Award this year. Much deserved recognition was given to our team for the successful repair of the NRU reactor in Chalk River. Liburdi Automation
Matt Reid Sean Elliot
Nathan Parker Tim Newbigging
Bruce Green Brian Cox
Rob Pistor
Janusz Bialach
JJ Sixsmith Dan Rossi
Mark DaCosta
Predrag Gutovic
Minja Zahirovic
Shane Cressy
Andrew Laing
William Shiu
Carlos Martinez
SGT 800 Rejuvenation Team
Designed for continuous, heavy duty operation, the SGT-800 capacity for power generation applications is estimated at 47 MW. The first repair of this configuration (casing and fuel nozzles) outside of the OEM that achieved superior exhaust spread temperature readings along with expected performance characteristics. The repair effort was performed by Turbine Services with excellent support by the Dimetrics personnel to extract and then weld the inner casing wall. A customized cutting adaptation tool was developed for the F-Head during the development phase of this project. Liburdi Turbine Liburdi Dimetrics
Aaron Smith
Darrell Pugh Jay Golden Dave Weir
Jo Ann St.John Melody Zader
Ron Rich Cecil McElveen Paul Edwards Richard Stirewalt Jason Lighton David Hansen Terrance Jackson Cory Owens Wayne Lucado John Machner DJ Rigsby Earl Bridgeman Elliot Broome
Rob Rowland
Jimmy Mills
Alan Smith Brent Johnson
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John Bottoms
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XII Congress and Latin American Exhibition of Turbomachinery This Congress and exhibition brings together suppliers and specialists in the field of the turbo machinery and promotes the exchange of experiences between users, manufacturers and research institutes, is the ideal forum to disseminate the latest research and developments focused on the design operation and maintenance of turbines of steam, gas, and hydraulic, axial and centrifugal compressors, pumps, fans, electric motors, auxiliary equipment and cogeneration. Miguelina Curcio and Lloyd Cooke of Liburdi Turbine Services presented two papers; Part 1: Engineering analysis of GT components. Part 2: Advanced repairs and upgrades to extend component life.
Lloyd Cooke Miguelina Curcio
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NEW! FireView™ 4.0
This high resolution video and viewing system offers intuitive features including: Programming - full weld schedule creation, modification, and transfer to the power supply as well as a visual graph representation of each parameter with the ability to modify parameters graphically. Designer - allows the end user to create and customize the screen layout (button placement, jog controls, images, text, colours) and save these layouts as Sessions.
Standard FireView™ Console
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Click’n’Drag Zoom Feature
*FireView™ can be packaged in customer specified environmental cases
This facility was equipped with almost a halfmillion dollars worth of state-of-the art orbital welding equipment provided by Liburdi Dimetrics. The center is dedicated to automated orbital welding instruction and training. Equipment provided by Liburdi Dimetrics included our P300™ power sources and F Weld Heads.
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Liburdi Dimetrics Partners with Educational Facilities
When laser and powder welding is performed, an integrated coaxial feed laser weld head is required. This 1kW designed is primarily used for cladding of aerospace parts with our standard 2mm weld head powder nozzle. Powder is transported from the hopper via a plastic powder feed line. A regulated flow of carrier gas is established and directed through a pickup tube that passes through the bottom of the hopper. The hopper is then pressurized and a pneumatic vibrator mounted on the bottom of the hopper is activated. Our Liburdi automated welding systems range from tabletop style TIG welder for simple stainless steel plates to 7 axis system with a 1500 lb positioner running TIG, micro-plasma or LASER with multiple filler wire drives or powder feed systems are suitable for welding complex three-dimensional profiles in titanium or other superalloys. The enclosed system will be the first in Europe to process the CFM-56 LPT Case, Titanium Fan Blades and all four stages of Inconel / Waspaloy engine seals� using laser and plasma processes Liburdi Automation Bottom right photo: Miguel Pulmones on site installation
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Laser Powder, Laser Wire and Plasma with LAWS 5000
The sole purpose is to reduce the risk to residence and businesses in this area from storm surge associated with tropical events. This pump station houses 11 pumps, each rated at 800,000 gallons per minute. The largest pumps ever produced. Our automated K weld head with Orbimig II™ were used to weld double wall fuel pipes which transport fuel from on site backup fuel farms to the pump station in emergency situations. Liburdi Dimetrics Main photo: Troy Jackson (on site Liburdi Weld Technician)
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West Closure Complex
Located half a mile south of the Harvey and Algiers canals, this complex consists of a navigation flood gate, flood walls, levees and pump station (shown in background of main photo).
In recent years, alloy 600 base material with dissimilar metal 82/182 butt welds (DMWs) between pipe-to-nozzle in PWR power plants have experienced primary water stress corrosion cracking (PWSCC). Weld Overlay (WOL) is a mitigation/repair process to avoid or eliminate the stress corrosion cracking (PWSCC) in alloy 600 material. Liburdi was selected for welding procedure development (WPS/PQR), welding and grinding system supply, training, on site outage technical support for pressurizer dissimilar welds overlay repair in Taiwan PWR power plants. Alloy 52 filler material is used for OD full structural weld overlay. Temper bead technique (using Machine GTAW) is used to apply the weld overlay on the low-alloy steel portion of the nozzle. All final weld overlays and surrounding areas successfully passed ultrasonic examination and surface-examination with PT in accordance with the ASME Code and applicable Code Cases. On-site Equipment: - Custom front end weld head - Automated overlay grinder - GTVIŽ power source - FireView™ remote viewing system. Liburdi Automation Liburdi Dimetrics Repairs completed by Andrew Laing (Applications Specialist) and Shane Cressy (Electrical Technician).
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Technical Services of Pressurizer Overlay
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Boiler Tube Replacement Solution
The success of the J weld head combined with our P300™ power source has lead to a rapid demand in the boiler tube replacement field across the US; including such states as Washington, Hawaii, Alabama and Indiana.