About Us
Our goal at Advanced Turbine Support, Inc. (ATSI) is to provide you with a thorough, unbiased, non-destructive evaluation (NDE) based condition assessment of your combustion turbines, steam turbines and electric generators. In addition to the typical semi-annual or annual visual borescope inspections, our borescope inspection services have been utilized for baseline inspections, outage planning, pre-commissioning, post-overhaul, unit troubleshooting and warranty inspections.
Our inspectors have been conducting visual borescope inspections on rotating equipment for the power generation utility industry since 1993. We carry American Society for Nondestructive Testing (ASNT) TC-1A Certifications in visual weld inspection, magnetic particle (MT), and dye penetrant testing (PT). Our staff includes two ASNT Level II and III Eddy Current and Ultrasonic Inspectors who are capable of meeting all of the NDE requirements for inspecting General Electric and Westinghouse Gas Turbine.
We have extensive borescope inspection experience inspecting the following combustion turbines: GE Frame 5's, 6&6B's, 7B's, 7EA's, 7FA's, LM6000's, Pratt and Whitney FT-4 and FT-8, Westinghouse 191's, 251's, 301's, 501AA's, 501B's, 501F's and D5A's.
We have many highly skilled inspectors available to meet your inspection needs. Our inspectors include: Rod Shidler, Rick Ginder, Robert Burkhart, Mark Richards, Heath Roy, Dustin Irlbeck, Brett Fuller, Luis Hernandez, Rob Boyer, Harry Ruf, Michael Sladek, Steven Sowinski, John Livingston, Greg Hernandez, Allan Kuiper, Mike Hoogsteden, Matt Brown, Joe Bertine, Robert Everett and Guillermo Gonzalez.
Our client list includes: American Electric Power, AES, Ameren, Calpine, Con Ed, Constellation, CSW, Dominion Energy, Duke Energy,Gainesville Regional Utilities, Progress Energy, SRP, TVA, Tenaska and others.
References:
Duke Energy, Bill Wheeler, bill.wheeler@duke-energy.com , 513-467-5346.
Dominion, Paul White, paul.white@dom.com
TVA, Stan Rose, jsrose0@tva.gov 662-356-2106
Tenaska, (FT-8's), Richard Evans, revans@wolfhillsenergy.com
Tenaska, Steve Foster SBFoster@tenaska.com , 918-432-5117 x 1010.
FPL, Errol Morgan, errol_morgan@fpl.com , 561 691-2353.
Dynegy, Jim Chamberlain, jim.chamberlain@dynegy.com , 831-750-7558.