GE Clearwater Instrument Transformer Facility Tour
The IEEE Florida West Coast Section Life Members Affinity Group (LMAG) and Power Energy Society/Industry Applications Society (PES/IAS), in collaboration with GE Grid Solutions, is bringing to the IEEE community this awesome tour of the GE/ITI Clearwater Instrument Transformer Facility. GE/ITI Clearwater is the main manufacturing facility for all GE instrument transformers <69 kV. GE manufactures over 500,000 dry-type instrument transformers every year for utility and industrial applications out of the Clearwater facility.
This tour event will consist of a 45–60-minute classroom session to cover the basics of what makes an instrument transformer different, types of instrument transformers, applications, nameplate basics and how to apply, and the future of the industry.
The second part of the event will be a 1–2-hour walk-through of the factory floor from the component production, core manufacturing, transformer winding, casting, and final test. As a bonus, there will also be a brief walk-through of the capacitor production floor.
Participants are required to wear safety shoes and safety glasses. The facility does have safety shoe covers available, but supplies are limited, please include during registration if you will need a shoe cover + shoe size. Hearing protection will be provided at the necessary locations. Additional information regarding parking and other instructions will be provided ahead of the event via email to those registered.
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- Date: 12 Apr 2024
- Time: 09:00 AM to 12:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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- 1925 Calumet Street
- Clearwater, Florida
- United States 33765
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- Co-sponsored by GE Vernova
- Starts 09 February 2024 08:00 PM
- Ends 11 April 2024 05:00 PM
- All times are (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
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Speakers
Ryan Alkire, Lead Technical Applications Engineer - GE Vernova of GE Vernova
Biography:
Ryan Alkire is the Lead Technical Application Engineer for GE Power Sensing, part of GE Vernova. In this role, he supports all utilities in the US and utilities and industrial customers in Canada for instrument transformer needs. Ryan presents at ten electric meter schools throughout the country providing instruction on instrument transformer ratings and application. Before his current role, Ryan obtained his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of South Florida and holds a Master of Science in Engineering Management from USF. Ryan has worked as a design engineer for ABB dry-type distribution transformers, GE instrument transformers and at Espey Electronics and Manufacturing as a magnetics design engineer. Ryan has been an IEEE member for 9 years.