During a turbine upgrade project at Rocky Mountain Hydro Electric Plant, Oglethorpe Power Corporation was tasked with finding ways to trim the schedule. The plant is a pumped storage facility located in the Appalachian mountains of Northwest Georgia, approximately 62 miles from Chattanooga, Tennessee. Oglethorpe is the nation’s largest power supply cooperative which provides electricity to 4.1 million Georgia citizens.
A Senior Engineer at Oglethorpe had been looking at a system that was gaining notoriety in the metrology industry for attaining measurements with phenomenal precision using laser technology. This instrument – a laser tracker – can be used to perform critical measurements for “as found” and “as left” conditions pertaining to disassembly and reassembly of their pumped storage turbine generator.
The laser tracker was used in several aspects of this project including alignment and reverse engineering. Click here to read the full story.
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