Actom Turbo Machines
Turbomachinery and High-speed Rotating Equipment Specialists
Actom Turbo Machines offers complete workshop, site, and engineering services for turbomachinery and high-speed rotating equipment, such as:
- Steam and gas turbines
- Gas expanders
- Compressors; centrifugal, radial, and integrally-geared compressors
- Reciprocating compressors
- Pumps; multi-stage, single-stage, high-pressure pumps
- Blowers and fans; single-stage overhang; ID and FD fans; acid blowers
- Gearboxes; high-speed reducing/ increasing; mill gearboxes;
- Centrifuges
- All mechanical peripherals and auxiliaries
- Steam, gas, and oil piping and fabrications
Workshop services
Comprehensive inspections, refurbishments and repairs by experienced workshop engineers and technicians under extensive quality control procedures and specifications, such as:
- Cleaning, sand/ glass-bead blasting and painting bays
- 3D measuring, dimensional and visual reporting
- Run-out inspections
- Non-destructive testing and material analysis
- Low-speed balancing
- Weld repair and re-machining of rotor shafts, casings, impellers, peripherals and auxiliaries
- Casing line boring
- Re-machining and grinding of rotor shaft journals
- Re-metaling and machining white metal bearings
- Labyrinth seals replacement; strip material and wire, re-caulking and machining
- Wear ring welding or coating and re-machining
- Turbine rotor and stator re-blading
- Radial compressor rotor and stator re-blading
- Final assembly with verification of all specifications, dimensions and tolerances as per assembly procedures
- Complementary electrical services by Marthinusen & Coutts (Pty Ltd)
Engineering services, such as:
- Inspection, trouble-shooting, assessment, and scope of repair by qualified and experienced engineers
- Reverse-engineering of complete rotors; rotor shafts; turbine and compressor blades; compressor and pump impellers; gears and pinions
- Reverse-engineering of white-metal bearings, casings, sealing systems, peripherals and auxiliaries
- Design, re-engineering, and specifications for turbomachinery and high-speed rotating equipment
- Quality assurance and quality control
- Compilation of quality control procedures and engineering specifications
Complete fabrication and machining of components, such as:
- Rotor shafts for turbines, compressors, blowers, fans, and pumps
- Impellers for centrifugal compressors, blowers, fans, and pumps
- Turbine and compressor blades, shrouds, and pins
- White metal bearings metaling and machining
- labyrinth seals for gland seals and balance pistons
- Labyrinth seal strips and caulking wire
- Wear rings and sleeves for pumps
Site services
Comprehensive site services by experienced artisans, technicians and engineers, such as:
- General overhauls and maintenance for steam and gas turbines, compressors, gearboxes, pumps, blowers and fans, and all auxiliary systems
- Bearing inspections
- Rotor inspections
- Laser alignment and coupling inspections
- Non-destructive testing
- Inspection and trouble shooting
- Vibration analysis and fault finding
- Control and emergency-stop valves, oil systems, cooling systems, condensers, and steam and vacuum systems
- Pre-commissioning inspection and commissioning
- Site fabrication
- Turnkey overhaul
- New installations
- Relocations and refurbishments
- Project planning and management
- Health, safety, environmental, and quality officers and management
- Complementary electrical services by Marthinusen & Coutts (Pty Ltd)
Actom Turbo Machines current contracts
Maintenance and general overhauls of 14 30 MW steam turbine and compressor trains in petrochemical air separation plant, consisting of:
- GHH steam turbines and compressor
- Up to 35 personnel on site
- Turbine and compressor engineer
- Site manager and foremen
- Health, safety, environmental, and quality managers and officers
- Site office and vehicles
- All equipment and tooling
Maintenance and general overhauls of six 60 MW steam turbines in power station, consisting of:
- Three GEC turbine-generator trains and three Escher Wyss Oerlikon turbine-generator trains
- HP turbine, LP turbine, and generator
- Up to 15 personnel on site
- Site manager
- Health, safety, environmental, and quality manager and officer
- Site office and vehicles
- All equipment and tooling
Past projects of note include:
Installation of two 150 MW steam turbine-generators for Copper Mining operation in Republic of Panama, consisting of:
- Doosan Skoda double casing HP and IP turbine, LP turbine, and Siemens generator, including all auxiliaries
- Laser leveling and laying of equipment on foundation
- Laser alignment of all equipment
- Up to 15 personnel on site
- Supply of equipment, tooling, and consumables
- Final alignment, pre-commissioning inspection and preservation
- Re-blading and refurbishment of five AEG Kanis steam turbines for petrochemical plant power station
- Refurbishment and overhaul of four 30 MW steam turbine-generator sets for Power Station in Namibia
- Installation of four 373 MVA vertical motors/ generators for pumped storage scheme in Ladysmith