APRI PLANT A

In Fulfillment of Electrical Equipment

Operation and Maintenance
AP Renewables, Inc. (APRI)
It acquired the 458 MW Now, let’s take a
MakBan geothermal look at their
plant in Laguna and Plant A.
Batangas.

APRI is one of the leading 2008

geothermal energy producers MakBan has six power
in the country, delivers clean plants namely A, B, C,
and renewable baseload
D, E and F with two
power with the two facilities
that it operates in Tiwi, Albay;
generating units each.
Bay and Calauan, Laguna;
and Sto. Tomas, Batangas.
EQUIPMENT
GENERATOR
 HYDROGEN-COOLED
GENERATOR

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Hydrogen-cooled
generators are generators
that use hydrogen gas as
coolant.

HYDROGEN-COOLED
GENERATOR
 MAINTENANCE

Hydrogen gas
dryer elimina
ting moisture
Monthly
carbon brush
replacement
 T urbine
1. Preventive Maintenance (PMW)
Regularly performed on a piece of equipment to
lessen the likelihood of it failing.
It is performed while the equipment is still working
so that it does not break down unexpectedly.
Conducted every month at APRI.

2. Corrective Maintenance
 Performed in order to rectify and repair faulty systems and
equipment.
 The purpose of corrective maintenance is to restore broken down
systems.
 Executed if there’s a minor problem, otherwise, the equipment will be
repaired at shutdown.
Corrective Maintenance Preventive Maintenance (PMW)
Protective Device Test Trip

Steam Turbine Valve Freedom Test

Condenser Vacuum Low Protection

Low Lube Oil

Truss Wear

Overspeed
TURBINE
Back-up Oil Pumps
TRANSFORMER
 TRANSFORMER
When electricity is generated at
a power plant, transformers
boost the voltage from a few
thousand up to hundreds of
thousands for purposes of long
distance transmission
 MAINTENANCE

Dissolved Gas Scanning Cleaning of Bushings

Transformer Oil Sampling Sealing &Tightening of

Screw

Thermal Scanner Replacing of Silica Gel