Azura-Edo Independent Power Plant Environmental Impact ... - IFC

Maintenance Event Routine Outage Duration
Gas Turbine Hot Gas
Path Inspections
Performed at approximately 24,000 Factored Fired
Hours for the gas turbine, or as modified by the
mutual agreement of the Parties.
Sixteen days
Gas Turbine Major
Overhaul
Performed at approximately 48,000 Operating
Hours for the gas turbine, or as modified by the
mutual agreement of the parties. Generator Major
Inspections will be performed in conjunction with
the Gas Turbine Major Overhaul.
Twenty-eight
days
Condition Monitoring
Condition monitoring will be adopted as part of Azura Power’s O&M
Company philosophy. The change in the various conditions measured will be
fed back into the planned preventative maintenance system to adjust and
optimise maintenance cycles. The condition monitoring will include the
following:
• Turbine on-line vibration monitoring;
• Vibration monitoring of other key rotating equipment such as fans and
pumps;
• Thermal imaging;
• Generator (cooling flow) condition monitoring;
• Lube oil temperature and quality monitoring;
• Transformer oil quality monitoring;
• Ultrasonic leak detectors (to monitor the condition of steam traps and
valves); and
• Ultrasonic thickness measurements (on various pipework).
3.6.2 Employment
There will be approximately 50 permanent site employees onsite during
commercial operations. These will include plant management staff,
maintenance staff, skilled technicians, drivers, cleaning staff and a number of
semi-skilled operators who will operate and maintain the Azura-Edo IPP
plant.
Further details are provided in Table 3.6 below.
Table 3.6
Overview of Employment Positions
Job title
Level of
Skill
Description
A Plant Manager Skilled Operation and maintenance of the plant and
the management of the business, will have
field and operation and maintenance
experience, and will be in charge of handling
all contractual issues, of overseeing the
operation of the Facility, and of leading and
managing the rest of the team.
Number of
Positions
1
AZURA EDO IPP
3-21
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