Program

International GE LM6000, LM2500 & LM1600

User Conference
6 -9 November 2018, Crowne Plaza Hotel, The Hague – The Netherlands

Summary Conference Program

Time Tuesday – 6 November Program Location
18:00 Registration Conference Lobby
19:00 – 21:30 Welcoming Dinner Hotel Restaurant
Time Wednesday – 7 November Program (OEM day) Location
08:30 Registration Conference Lobby
09:00 – 09:15 Welcome & Opening Keynote speech Park
LM6000 OEM Keynotes LM2500 OEM Keynotes
09:15 – 10:00 Park or Orange
& Fleet Updates & Fleet Updates
10:00 – 10:45 LM6000 OEM Technical Updates LM2500 OEM Technical Updates Park or Orange
10:45 – 11:15 Break Lobby
11:15 – 12:00 GE Asset 2.0 Park
12:00 – 13:00 Lunch Hotel Restaurant
Preparation Preparation Preparation Preparation
13:00 – 13:45
User Only Round User Only Round User Only Round User Only Round Orange/Park
13:45 – 14:30
Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4
14:30 – 15:00 Break Lobby
OEM +User Only OEM +User Only OEM +User Only OEM +User Only
15:00 – 16:30 Orange/Park
Round Table 1 Round Table 2 Round Table 3 Round Table 4
16:30 – 17:15 Fresh-up & Assembly (1 km walk from Hotel to Madurodam) Lobby
17:30 Discover Madurodam Madurodam
18:15 GE Dinner Madurodam
Time Thursday – 8 November Program (ISP day) Location
09:00 Welcome Orange/Park
09:00 – 09:30 Presentation International Generator Technical Forum Orange/Park
09:30 – 10:30 User technical issues, lessons learned and best practices Orange/Park
10:30 – 11:00 Break Lobby
11:00 – 12:20 LM independent technology innovations Orange/Park
12:30 – 20:00 Vendor Fair Residence
12:30 – 13:30 Buffet Lunch at Vendor Fair Residence
13:40 – 14:00 LM independent technology innovations Orange/Park
14:00 – 14:20 Introduction User Only Round Tables independent technical experts Orange/Park
Expert + User Expert + User Expert + User Expert + User
14:30 – 15:15 Only Round Only Round Only Round Only Round Orange/Park
Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4
15:15 – 15:45 Break Residence
Expert + User Expert + User Expert + User Expert + User
15:45 – 16:30 Only Round Only Round Only Round Only Round Orange/Park
Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4
16:30 – 17:30 User Only Round Tables Evaluation Orange/Park
17:30 – 17:45 Conference Wrap-up Orange/Park
17:55 – 20:00 Networking Drinks & Walking Dinner at Vendor Fair Residence room
Time Friday – 9 November Program (Plant Visit) Location
09:00 Depart from Crowne Plaza Hotel Lobby
09:15 Arrive at Uniper plant – The Hague
09:30 Plant Visit Uniper plant
11:00 Coffee drink at Uniper Plant Uniper Plant
11:45 Depart from Uniper plant – The Hague
12:00 Arrive at Crowne Plaza Hotel Lobby

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Day 0 Tuesday – 6 November
Time Program Location
18:00 Registration Conference Lobby
Welcoming Dinner
19:00 – 21:30 Sponsored by VBR Turbine Partners Hotel Restaurant

Day 1 Wednesday – 7 November (OEM day)

Time Program Location
08:30 Registration Conference Lobby
Welcome & Opening Keynote speech
Henk van den Berg, Board member DGTA / CEO Xenergy Services
09:00 – 09:15 Park
Okko Ebens, Managing Director of DGTA

LM6000 GE session 1 LM2500 GE session 1

Keynotes & Fleet Updates Keynotes & Fleet Updates
09:15 – 10:00
GE LM6000 Product Manager GE LM2500 Product Manager

Room: Park Room: Orange

LM6000 GE session 2 LM2500 GE session 2

Technical Updates Technical Updates
10:00 – 10:45
GE LM6000 Technical Expert GE LM2500 Technical Expert

Room: Park Room: Orange

10:45 – 11:15 Break Lobby
GE Asset 2.0
11:15 – 12:00 Park

Lunch
12:00 – 13:00 Sponsored by EthosEnergy Hotel Restaurant

User Only Round Table sessions on selected technical topics

User Only preparation of the Round Table topics to be addressed by GE
technical experts (this afternoon) and by independent technical experts
(tomorrow afternoon)
Perspectives for this preparation:
How to reduce LM operation & Maintenance costs?
How to improve LM reliability, availability, maintainability,
profitability?
What are consequences of increased flexible operation?
(start-stop, part-load)
Orange/Park
13:00 – 13:45 hrs. first round of user only preparation sessions

13:45 – 14:30 hrs. second round of user only preparation sessions

15:00 – 16:30 hrs. User round table Q&A sessions for GE technical experts

See page 6 for more information regarding the covered sub-topics.

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 Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4

Preparation session Preparation session Preparation session Preparation session

13:00 – 13:45 for round tables for round tables for round tables for round tables
moderated by DGTA moderated by DGTA moderated by DGTA moderated by DGTA
13:45 – 14:30
Topic: Topic: Topic: Topic:
Control systems & Life Cycle Engine Issues Digital / Data Driven
Instrumentation Management Maintenance -

14:30 – 15:00 Break

Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4

Moderated by GE Moderated by GE Moderated by GE Moderated by GE

technical expert technical expert technical expert technical expert
15:00 – 16:30
Topic: Topic: Topic: Topic:
Control systems & Life Cycle Engine Issues Digital / Data Driven
Instrumentation Management Maintenance -

16:30 – 17:15 Fresh-up & Assembly (1 km walk from Crowne Plaza Hotel to Madurodam) Lobby

Discover Madurodam
17:30 Follow a tour through Madurodam and discover Holland in miniature size! Madurodam

GE Dinner
18:15 Sponsored by General Electric Madurodam

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Day 2 Thursday – 8 November (ISP day)
Time Program Location
Welcome
09:00 Okko Ebens, Managing Director of DGTA Orange/Park

Presentation International Generator Technical Forum

09:00 – 09:30 By Jane Hutt, IGTC Orange/Park

User technical issues, lessons learned and best practices

09:30 – 10:00 Frequent Pitting & Cracking on Compressor

By Ciprel
Orange/Park
10:00 – 10:30 Power Station Den Haag
By Uniper

10:30 – 11:00 Break Lobby

LM independent technology innovations
Updates regarding new and/or innovative technology developments
available on the market for LM gas turbines.

11:00 – 11:20 MTU as an Independent Service Provider

MTU

11:20 – 11:40 Life Extension through Additive Manufacturing

EthosEnergy Orange/Park

11:40 – 12:00 Legacy Control Systems for aero-derivative gas turbines

– a Rolls Royce point of view
Holland Controls

12:00 – 12:20 Gas Turbine Compressor Washing

Rochem Technical Services

12:30 – 20:00 Vendor Fair

Residence
Buffet Lunch at Vendor Fair
12:30 – 13:30 Sponsored by MTU Residence

LM independent technology innovations

DECIDE remote decision support to enhance human decision

13:40 – 14:00 Orange/Park
making in gas turbine operation & maintenance
VBR Turbine Partners

Introduction User Only Round Tables independent technical experts

Meet the independent technical experts who will moderate the User Only
14:00 – 14:20 Orange/Park
Round Tables

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 User Only Round Tables
Participate in user-only round table discussion sessions moderated by
independent technical experts and debate key challenges with your peers. Orange/Park
See page 6 for more information regarding the covered sub-topics.

Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4

Moderated by Moderated by Moderated by Moderated by

independent independent independent independent
14:30 – 15:15 technical expert technical expert technical expert technical expert

Topic: Topic: Topic: Topic:

Control systems & Life Cycle Engine Issues Digital / Data Driven
Instrumentation Management Maintenance
15:15 – 15:45 Break
Table 1 Table 2 Table 3 Table 4

Moderated by Moderated by Moderated by Moderated by

independent independent independent independent
15:45 – 16:30 technical expert technical expert technical expert technical expert

Topic: Topic: Topic: Topic:

Control systems & Life Cycle Engine Issues Digital / Data Driven
Instrumentation Management Maintenance
User Only Round Tables Evaluation
Evaluation of the outcomes of all user only round table sessions and
comparison of the feedback of the GE technical experts and the
independent technical experts on the topics discussed at the user only
round tables.
Perspectives for this evaluation:
16:30 – 17:30 Orange/Park
How to reduce LM operation & Maintenance costs?
How to improve LM reliability, availability, maintainability,
profitability?
What are consequences of increased flexible operation?
(start-stop, part-load)

Conference Wrap-up
17:30 – 17:45 By Okko Ebens, Managing Director DGTA Orange/Park

Networking Drinks & Walking Dinner at Vendor Fair

17:55 – 20:00 Walking dinner & Drinks sponsored by Rochem & Holland Controls Residence

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Day 3 Friday – 9 November (Site visit morning)
Time Program Location
09:00 Depart from Crowne Plaza Hotel Lobby
09:15 Arrive at Uniper plant – The Hague
Plant Visit
The plant was built in 1901 and is now owned by Uniper since 2016.
The Combined-Cycle power plant can produce 97 MW and supplies
electricity to the high voltage installation from TenneT to the national high
09:30 Uniper Plant
voltage grid, as well as heat to the district heating network in The Hague.
In 2007 the power plant replaced two outdated gas turbines for two
General Electric LM6000 PD-SPRINT gas turbines.

11:00 Coffee drink at Uniper Plant Uniper Plant

11:45 Depart from Uniper plant – The Hague
12:00 Arrive at Crowne Plaza Hotel Lobby

Preliminary list of topics to be covered in the User Only Round Table sessions with GE and ISP’s
User only round table 1 User only round table table 2
Topic: Control systems & Instrumentation Topic: Life Cycle Management
Age (control system, instrumentation) Part Life Extension
Legacy Control Equipment Age (fuel valves, mechanical equipment)
Sourcing spare parts for control equipment Sourcing spares for fuel valves
Controls Issues Extension of service intervals
Mapping
Controls System Upgrades – Retrofits
Junction Boxes, Instrumentation, Cabling
Start Reliability
Accelerated start up’s

User only round table 3 User only round table 4

Topic: Engine Issues Topic: Digital / Data Driven Maintenance
Engine topics Engine models / digital twins
Stall event? Remote solutions & services
Hot section exchange: new vs. overhauled vs. Real-time online operation data
used Cyber security assurance
User Experiences with overhaul depots GE, Lifetime assessment of components
MTU, TCT
Unconventional repair procedures to reduce
costs

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Sponsored by

Partners

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 Practical Information

Venue of the User Conference Venue of the GE Dinner

Crowne Plaza Hotel Madurodam

Van Stolkweg 1, 2585 JL Den Haag George Maduroplein 1, 2584 RZ Den Haag
+31 70 352 5161

DGTA Contacts

(Ken) Hon Pin Ong

Okko Ebens
Managing director of DGTA
+31 6 531 03 896
Angelique Tadros
Programme Manager of Technology &
Communications & Events
Innovation
+31 30 750 9814
+31 6 505 99 064

Taxi Center The Hague

Contacts Airport Taxi Private Rates

From Schiphol to The Hague

Haagse Taxi Centrale 1-4 person – from 69,00 Euros
Phone: +31 70 777 77 77 5-8 person – from 79,00 Euros

*American Express, Mastercard and Visa From The Hague to Schiphol

accepted in the taxi 1-4 person – from 59,00 Euros
5-8 person – from 69,00 Euros

Venue of the site visit

Uniper Electriciteitsfabriek
Constant Rebequeplein 20, 2518 RA, The Hague

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