SEMPPES
South
Power Plant Engineers’ Society
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A Professional organization for Engineers and Suppliers of the Powerhouse Industry |
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President |
Vice President |
Sec/Treasurer |
Sergeant-at Arms |
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Brian Boggs |
Eric Cameron |
Alfred Preis |
Brian Irwin |
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AAA |
D.J. Conley |
Retired |
Nalco |
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313-336-4053 |
248-589-8220 |
734-697-0092 |
734-834-3933 |
March 2008 join us on the web at http://www.semppes.com Volume X: Issue III
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MARCH PRESENTATION |
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A Data Driven Review of the Stock, Bond and
Cash Markets |
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Presented
by: |
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TOPIC Longtime SEMPPES member, Dr. Subramanian Ramamurthy of Merrill Lynch, will be introducing two of his colleagues at our Meeting on March 20th. Thomas N. Ogar (MBA, University of Michigan) will be presenting “A Data Driven Review of the Stock, Bond and Cash Markets”. Ryan Johnson (Vice-President) will be presenting “Taking Control of Your Retirement-Managing the Risk of an Income Shortfall”. They will each be available for individual questions after their presentations. |
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Date:
March 20, 2008 |
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Time: |
Place: Dimitri’s On the Avenue
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Cost:
Vendors: $25.00 per person |
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Engineers: Free |
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"St.
Patrick's Day Celebration - Corned beef and cabbage
along with a wee bit of green beer” |
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PLEASE R.S.V.P. to Dennis Insley dinsley@advnet.net or
call |
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(810)
650-2809 or fax (810)-367-2154 AS SOON
AS POSSIBLE |
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March
Quote “You can have
everything in life that you want if you just give enough
If the statement, “The proof is
in the pudding” has any validity at all, then it applies to our February 21st
SEMPPES meeting. Ninety-one members
and guests were in attendance to commemorate our “Appreciation to Past
Presidents” and to partake in Paul “ April 1st and 2nd
SEMPPES will be co-sponsoring the Michigan Facilities Expo at the And I need to congratulate all members who RSVP’ed for the February meeting. Eighty-one RSVP’s and ninety-one attendees. Those numbers are much more manageable. Please keep it up and RSVP any meeting you plan on attending. Thanks on behalf of Dimitri’s. This makes their job so much easier. Chicken Soup for the Engineer's Soul "SEMMPES
would like to hear your maintenance stories. Please submit same to
Brian Boggs at bqboggs@aaamichigan.com for
consideration." Several years ago, I was working at the powerhouse at We had a 1500 ton Carrier centrifugal chiller driven by a The problem was found to be oil logged refrigerant. The operators were adding oil to the compressor with a hand crank pump more than necessary over the previous years. The refrigerant was evaporated in the pump out receiver and over 30 gallons of oil was removed. The oil was preventing the refrigerant from reaching its proper evaporating temperature in the chiller. When we started the chiller up it ran great. The next step was to inspect the turbine as the steam seal rings were badly worn and excessive condensate was entering the turbine lube oil system. This particular turbine was surrounded by a very nice sheet metal enclosure that the hospital sheet metal shop had installed several years before. This, of course, had to be removed to be able to disassemble the turbine for inspection. We worked with the Manufactures rep on the turbine and the rotor was shipped out for cleaning and balancing. When all of the work was complete on the turbine, it was reassembled and we attempted to start it up for a test run. There was a problem getting the condenser system to pull a sufficient vacuum in the turbine. We checked everything for several days trying to figure out where the air leak was coming from. I was pulling my hair out. The midnight shift decided to give it a try and by accident, did not start the steam jet air ejectors in the proper order. This caused a positive pressure to develop in the turbine casing when the throttle valve was first opened and guess what they observed? Several ¼ “ holes were drilled into the turbine casing by the tradesmen when they mounting the nice sheet metal enclosure! Steam was blowing out of the tapped holes and it was now very obvious where our air leak was coming from. We inserted a few bolts into the holes and everything worked as it should. The sheet metal enclosure was never re-assembled. I learned a lot from working on that machine over the years. Last I heard they tore it out to replace it with a more efficient electric chiller. METRO ENERGY, L.L.C. David Kiselewski,
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New Members Chirian Mark Bercea – The Ritz Carlton William L Cramplot Jr. - ABM Mark Cronce – Cargill Salt Justin Hall – Pumps & Systems Mike Hogg – Trane John Loewen – ABM – Fairlane Office Center Tony Mackovski – Nalco Michael J. Mannella – G.M. Refractories Roger Pearce – Fife-Pearce Electric Patrick Pinkowski – Munters Philip Poll – OBR Cooling Towers David Robin – Detroit Public Schools Ed Sanders – The Ritz Carlton Thomas A. Shoemaker – DTE Energy Services Scott Stanley – Level One HVAC
Services Alex Streberger – OBR Cooling Towers Paul Ursul – Wayne County (Bldgs. Div.) Marco Williams – DTE Energy Services Greg Yost - Pfizer Jason R. Blisnik – Henry Ford Community College James Metz – Henry Ford Community College George Aben – Henry Ford Community College Valerie C. Edward – Henry Ford Community College Eddie Render – Henry Ford Community College Gary Apkarian – Henry Ford Community College |
If you name was not
noted as a new member please let us know and we will add to the next newsletter
50/50 Winners
"Thank you for all who donated to the 50/50 raffle this
past month. The raffle is a fun way of providing additional entertainment
to what is already a great evening. Further, half of the proceeds are
directed to the SEMPPES organization which helps offset the cost of the monthly
meeting. Thank you for your contributions." The February
winners were:
1) Geoff Jamieson
2) Terry Turner
3) Tim McCarthy
Golf Outing Information:
"The snow on the ground may fool you, but it is that time of year to begin
planning for the Annual SEMPPES Golf Outing! We have secured an excellent
venue at the Eagle Crest Golf Club in Ypsilanti. As you know, this event
has a great history of fun, friends and of course humor! As a result of
these attributes, the previous years events have sold out and foursomes have
been turned away. Please RSVP with your payments early and let's plan on
another excellent day on the links! Attached is form with more details
and sign in sheet!" Click here
SEMPPES
2008 Golf Outing Flyer
LEEDS Training
I was having trouble referencing where to sign up for LEEDs Training and received
the following from Brian Irwin:
Dennis, in reference to your inquiry about LEED Training
Workshop from the presentation last month. From the USGBC website (www.usgbc.org), there are several ways to search
for workshops, the way I found to be the easiest for the workshop Paul was
referencing was to get to the Detroit Chapters webpage http://chapters.usgbc.org/detroit/
from here there is the LEED-NC Workshop in Southfield on April 2. A
couple comments, I attended one of these last year in Grand Rapids and thought
extremely highly of it for people in our industry (suppliers and engineers)!
One note I would point out is there are several classifications of focus,
for example healthcare, existing building retrofits, new building construction,
etc. The one on April 2nd will be targeted for New Construction (NC).
The one I attended was Existing Building Retrofit and as noted above was
extremely educational. The NC sounds good as well as it will likely focus
on the planning, design and commissioning of the buildings (this is speculation
of course). Hope this is useful.
- Brian T. Irwin
We
Have also provided direct links for the April 2, 2008 training on the SEMPPES
website…
NOTES and COMMENTS
1.) Supplier and Engineer Dues are $50.00 for suppliers and $20.00for engineers for the year - 2008 Membership cards are now available. Forms at 2008DuesWebForm.htm
Please pay at the monthly meeting or mail to our Secretary/Treasurer:
Please include your
current address and email address.
SEMPPES , c/o Alfred Preis , 12970
Martinsville, Belleville, MI, 48111-4811
When turning in your membership application please include two (2) business cards. Also please be sure to include your email address and web site on the application.
2.)
Attention both Engineering and Supplier members –
Please check our website; <www.SEMPPES.com> to assure that your name and
company is listed under the “members” heading.
If not, please email our Webmaster, Dennis Insley, at dinsley@advnet.net and discuss your listing.
Please note
the three headings to search by:
a.)
a.)
Individual name b.) Subject and
c.) Company.
All Engineering members are invited to complete and submit
their membership information to be included in our club directory and database.
3.) If there are any mistakes on your email address/mailing label please email corrections to dinsley@advnet.net . Also advise us of telephone number and email address changes to help us keep our files current.
4.)
The membership
roster for both engineers and suppliers is available on the website.
5.) SEMPPES Hats and Shirts are a great way to advertise our club to both vendors and suppliers. They make excellent gift items also. There are now hats and golf shirts available with the new SEMPPES logo. The hats are $20.00 and the shirts are $30.00. The club has new long sleeve denim shirts with the SEMPPES logo, which are now available.
6.) Vendors and Engineers are welcome to submit suggestions for future Presentations or Tours for the coming year. Presentations & Tours are a great way to introduce the club membership to new technologies, new products or ideas, and to help educate and update ourselves with "what's new" in our industry. They are a truly valuable benefit of SEMPPES membership.
7.)
"Help wanted" and
"Situations wanted" is another service available to club
members. Notices can be published in our
newsletter and on the SEMPPES’s
website.