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Forum Topics / Forum Moderators / Moderator Bio
Clyde Maughan, P.E. Emeritus serves as the moderator of the Inner Water-Cooled Windings forum.
Mr Maughan has had a 60-year career in turbine-generators. He retired from GE in 1986, and has since worked as an engineering consultant on several hundred generator service problem. He has authored 2 dozen technical papers on a dozen different generator maintenance topics in the last 10 years.
He is also the author of a 210-page textbook on generator maintenance that includes 250 photos and illustrations. Based on this text, during the last 10 years Mr. Maughan has presented a 2-1/2 day seminar 30 times to a total of about 950 maintenance personnel around the world. (IGTC note: Mr. Maughan has generously made this text available via to IGTC members. Current and new members can download a copy after logging in and going to the download tab of the Inner Water-Cooled forum.)
Mr. Maughan is a 1950 graduate of the University of Idaho, BS (Electrical Engineering); and Union College, MS (Mechanical Engineering).
He is still working, focusing his efforts primarily on generator condition assessment and failure root cause analysis and on generator maintenance training.
Scope of consultation work
- Generators rated 2MW to 1400MW.
- Manufactured by ABB, Alstom, Brush, Electric Machine, General Electric, Hitachi, Ideal, Mitsubishi, Schneider, Siemens, Siemens-Westinghouse, Toshiba, Westinghouse.
- Failure investigation & analysis, insurance claim resolution, expert trial testimony, training and educating of OEM and user generator service personnel, OEM design & manufacturing consultation, writing of maintenance procedures.
Consulting projects and areas of involvement, USA & foreign
Training
- During 1996, authored 210-page, 250-photograph text on generator repair; since have completed presentation of 30 seminars to 990 attendees using 1400 PowerPoint slides. Attendees have included utility and OEM personnel at many locations in the USA, Korea (2002), Australia (2004), South Africa (1999 & 2005), Israel (2005), India (March 2008), APS (June 2008), South Africa (July 2008).
- During the last 10 years, authored 30 technical papers on a dozen different generator maintenance topics, and presented these papers at 25 technical conferences worldwide.
- Author of EPRI document on generator evaluation and repair, EL-5885.
- Revised and updated all written generator repair procedures of a major OEM.
- Extensive involvement in the growth, training and equipping of the generator service engineers for a major OEM.
Service
- Several dozen successful root cause investigations of complex failures on stator and field components.
- Many major and minor repair projects (roughly 250) on all sizes of generators.
- Only non-OEM inductee of GE Academy of Generator Maintenance Specialists.
Engineering/Manufacturing
- Various OEM major field and stator component redesign projects.
- Major contribution to identification and correction of several OEM manufacturing deficiency problems as an independent consultant.
- Initiator and participant in IEEE Working Group on generator partial discharge analysis. See IEEE P1434 issued April 2000.
- Initial manager & then co-manager of 10-year EPRI project on comparison of on-line partial discharge (PD) and electromagnetic interference (EMI) testing, 1997 to 2007.
Technical & experience background
- BS(EE) 1950, University of Idaho. MS(ME) 1967, Union College, Schenectady. NY State Profession Engineer for 46 years, 1960-2006 (#4665447).
- General Electric 36 years as engineer and manager in generator and turbine:engineeringdesign, service, and development; manufacturing production and quality control; product service in field and factory; project manager of 5 generator change-outs of three leading OEM’s.
- Experience as independent generator maintenance consultant – 23 years.
- Industry: Author or co-author of 38 major technical papers, served on several IEEE and IEC committees, IEEE Chapter Chairman. (Currently Life Member of IEEE, #03512829.)
- Industry experience - 60 years.
