Consists of  a team of professionals with extensive experience in providing specialized services in all aspects of the plant and equipment performance improvement, problem diagnosis, as well as performance measurement and tracking.  Our staff has extensive experience in a variety of conventional, combined cycle, cogeneration, waste-to-energy, hydroelectric, and nuclear power generation units.

Personnel Biographies

 

Alex Berman, M.S.M.E., P.E.

Alex has over 20 years experience fossil power plant performance engineering.  Approximately half of this time was spent with the Lithuanian Power Authority.  Alex spent eight years as a member of the Performance Engineering Group at the Southern California Edison Co. (SCE). During this time he has performed dozens of tests on equipment such as steam turbines, gas turbines, hydroelectric turbines, boilers, large pumps, condensers, feedwater heaters, fans, and blowers.  Alex is one of the few engineers in the U.S. with intimate knowledge of the dye-dilution method for measuring large liquid flows.  He has also preformed many steam path audits all over the U.S. and in Latin America .  He is a registered Professional Engineer in California .

 

Sam Gibson, P.E.

Sam has over 20 years of experience in the power industry.  This experience includes design of nuclear plant components, station performance engineering, and most recently, turbine steam path audits.  As a staff engineer with SCE he performed over 80 steam path audits on SCE units as well as plants all over the U.S., Canada, and the U.K.   Sam helped in the development of the Steam Thermal Performance Evaluation (STPE) turbine modeling software program with Encotech, Inc.  Recently Sam developed a complete turbine modeling and steam path audit program using MS Excel.  He is a registered Professional Engineer in California .