Derek Hooper

Who We Are:• BPHASE is an electrical generator service company providing consulting, testing, maintenance, and repair services to commercial power generation companies.What We Do:• We provide consulting services to assist in outage planning, maintenance recommendation, and job surveillance to assure quality execution of the repairs.• We provide inspection services for all makes, models, and frame sizes of commercial turbogenerators. • We provide electrical and mechanical testing of generators, including DC Overpotential, DC Resistance, inner-cooled tube testing, Core tightness evaluation, ELCID testing of cores, decoupled end winding support analysis, FFA/Bump vibration analysis, rotor radial lead seal analysis, rotor turn short testing, and rotor impedance testing.Our People:• Derek Hooper, Generator Specialist Member, IEEE Power and Energy Society and Dielectrics and Electrical Insulation Societyo BS Marine Engineering, Maine Maritime Academy, 1998o Siemens-Westinghouse Senior Field Engineer for 10 years.o Qualified on all Westinghouse and Siemens frames, including:• Conventional• Single tube stack• Double tube stack• Rigi-Flex 1• Fast Rigi-Flex• Advanced gas-cooled Rigi-Flexo Type Specialist on the following frames:• MTG• Modularo Fleet Lead on the following frames:• WESTAC• AEROPAC I• AEROPAC II• BIC• TLRI stage 1• TLRI Stage 2• THRIo Exciter specialist on the following frames:• A041• A046• Mk 2• Mk 3• Mk 4• EMo OEM qualified in the following test procedures:• FFA/BUMP end winding vibration analysis.• FOVM (Fiber Optic Vibration Monitor) testing and commissioning.• AC and DC Overpotential Testing.• ELCID (Electromagnetic Core Imperfection Detector)• FLIR Thermography.• All other standard testing.Lead Technician : John Susalla, Siemens RetiredVP: Gary Hooper