KGI was founded by General Electric retirees who are experts on steam turbines, aeroderivative, heavy duty gas turbines (combustion, performance, hot gas path, accessories, etc.), generators, compressors, power plant design, etc. We are not limited to the General Electric design and can handle Siemens, Alstom, Solar designs, and other OEMs. In addition, we offer expert field service personnel for power plants.
General capabilities
For power generation and gas pipelines, the Keck Group International offers:
- Power Plant design for new units.
- Power Generation Uprates (including plant optimization, simple cycle to combined cycle plant upgrades, etc.).
- Uprate evaluations for pipelines (not limited to gas turbine; full pipeline system evaluation).
- Fuel evaluations (including checking for heavies in the fuel, gas turbine ingestion and the impact, etc.).
- Options to improve emissions.
- Availably/reliability improvements.
- Life-cycle evaluations.
- Owners representative for vendors, regulatory agencies, permitting, and more.
- Operation and maintenance support for existing power plants.
- Repairs and maintenance options.
- Cost estimating for uprates/upgrades for existing power plants.
power plant design capabilities
- Design oversight of dual fuel/liquid fuel transfer and purge systems
- Performance studies of new and existing equipment to maximize overall plant efficiency
- Support of customer/AE bid evaluations for all new equipment
- Controls integration between new and existing equipment (GT/Gen/HRSG/Station)
- Aeroderivative gas turbines - support for all controls and packaging for the GE LM fleet
- Factory inspections of the gas turbine, generator, and associated auxiliary equipment
- Design liquid fuel forwarding and filtration skids
- Coordination with fuel suppliers to ensure compliance with the gas turbine vendor specifications
- Support gas turbine emissions reports
- Supply appropriate field engineering support/direction during installation and commissioning
