Members

DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability, with more than 2,300 experts in over 30 countries around the world, is committed to driving the global transition toward a safe, reliable, efficient, and clean energy future. With a heritage of nearly 150 years, we specialize in providing world-class, innovative solutions in the fields of business & technical consultancy, testing, inspections & certification, risk management, and verification. As an objective and impartial knowledge-based company, we advise and support organizations along the energy value chain: producers, suppliers & end-users of energy, equipment manufacturers, as well as government bodies, corporations and non-governmental organizations. DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability is part of DNV, a global provider of services for managing risk with more than 10,000 employees in over 100 countries. For more information on DNV KEMA Energy & Sustainability, visit www.dnvkema.com .

DNV KEMA Power Generation & Renewables, one of DNV KEMA's global business lines, aims to become a world class leader in the power generation and renewables market. The business line serves the electric power generation sector including all large-scale power generation technologies, such as coal, gas, nuclear, biomass, waste-to-energy, wind and solar. Within the operational period of power plant assets, DNV KEMA also provides environmental compliance services. Apart from services related to the power generation lifecycle, DNV KEMA also provides advice on upcoming or new technologies such as CHP, carbon capture and storage. As DNV KEMA is an independent service provider for rendering consulting, inspection and measurement services in the fields of power production, transmission & distribution and sustainable use of energy, DNV KEMA has a broad and expert knowledge on industrial gas turbines in the area of condition monitoring, performance and emission testing, on- and off-line diagnostics, consulting on repair and reconditioning of hot gaspath components and lifetime management.

Recent innovation projects were focused on lifetime management of components and have resulted in:
• on-line blade temperature measurement
• on-line combustion monitoring and diagnostics
• test methods to quantify the effect of degradation and repair of hot gaspath components
• optimized spare parts model
• reliability-centered maintenance model
• fitness-for-purpose analyses for critical components

Gas turbine services provided by DNV KEMA are:

Performance improvement
• compressor cleaning/inlet air filtration optimization
• combustion monitoring
• emission measurements

On-line monitoring and diagnostics
• performance monitoring
• blade temperature monitoring
• combustion monitoring
• hot gaspath component remnant life monitoring

Off-line diagnostics
• coating condition measurement for blades and vanes
• boroscope inspections with eddy current
• optical strain measurements
• non-destructive testing
• lubricating oil diagnostics

Repair and refurbishment
• inspections and quality assurance
• suppliers review and shop audits
• component condition assessment
• review of repair specifications
• assessment of repair options and procedures

Engineering services:
• consultancy, due diligence and benchmarking
• client representative
• failure analyses/fitness-for-purpose analyses
• research & development