Dear zeusfaber's (Military) you have made a excelent effect over your years of good work for that we thankyou! but with this thread that I have started you could have lost the plot.
I am a retired power plant operator 20 years ago and sense that something is very wrong with what happened at with...
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The above new thread is about CS Energy Ltd and...
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CS Energy’s Ltd Callide C4 Management allowed maintenance staff to isolate the critical 220V DC Battery supply with the C4 unit in Service, without informing the unit C4 operator who was in control. He was left with his control panel isolated.
Process Safety proceedure had been...
The owner is the government of Queensland in Australia
The Callide Unit C4 incident was the result of the simultaneous failure of key electrical equipment and system back-ups in a complex series of events that could not have been anticipated, with some of the contributing factors being traced...
Large diesel engines and large steam turbines can have critical speeds that they should not be operated at for an extended period because of the vibration caused. When an engine has a damaging critical speed or speeds the information is displayed near the controls so the operator does not allow...
“The Callide Unit C4 incident was the result of the simultaneous failure of key electrical equipment and system back-ups in a complex series of events that could not have been anticipated, with some of the contributing factors being traced back to the original design of the power station,” Mr...
Nothing complex about switching off the critical 220VDC with C4 in service, just ignorance and good reason for no au$300M insurance payment.
CS Energy’s process safety management systems were not where they needed to be and the critical 220 VDC supply to unit C4 was turned off by maintenance...
Beleaguered state-owned CS Energy spent AU$38m of taxpayers' money hiring lawyers over the past two years, including to fight the release of the landmark report into the company's woes. The investigative report into the 2021 Callide C explosion compiled by forensic engineer Dr Sean Brady, cost...
The C4 220VDC was isolated with the unit in service, a written high voltage isolation was not used, the insurance has not made a payment to CSEnergy,
The RTS insurance will be self insurance by Qld Gov, their is a problem with staff turnover, there is a problem with operator training, maybe the...
CS Energy CEO Darren Busine said: “This was one of the most significant and complex process safety incidents in Australia and it has taken time to work through and understand the contributing factors to the event. and that the forensic engineer was employed by C S Energy's Lawyer. No wonder the...
CSEnergy C4 switched off the critical 220VDC with C4 in service and wrecked a steam turbine and three years later the coverup is still on. No wonder the insurance has refused to pay.
Forensic engineer Sean Brady has still not completed his long awaited report into the explosion that crippled...
Indeed, the modification of the Callide C4 design, which included the removal of the Castell key interlocks, unfortunately led to a catastrophic failure. The attempt to improve the system’s redundancy and reliability inadvertently resulted in the complete destruction of the steam turbine...
Wednesday 10 April 2024
1/ The insurance will not pay,
2/ The part owner of C4 has a court order for a new enquiry
3/ The Australian Energy Regulator is taking legal action
4/ A industry standard Castell interlock System had not been fitted to the unit breaker to stop the isolation of the...
This report describes what happened 50 years ago.
I am 79 and was the 4th engineering officer on that ship.(I had gone on leave 12days before) my replacement was killed.
The bridge was the about the same size. 4 lanes
The ship was carried 10,000 tons of ore
The Dali is about 10 times larger...
The Dali was most likely operating full astern with the anchor dropped.
this means that it would yaw to starboard with a loss of steerage.
If the engine had been slow ahead and anchor up the ship would have maintained stearage and missed the bridge.
Proceedure to transit under the Tasman Bridge was or still is for years after it was repaired!
1/: block both sides and all lanes with police cars for the transit duration as one car went past the cars stopped on bridge using the wrong side of road and was unable to stop.
2/: All ships need to...
The cause of this failure and the following loss of more than A$500m with the insurance not wanting to pay was caused by management not providing enough operator training in Operation,Safety and Plant Isolation Proceedure.
Why was the unit in service?
The switching (that caused the...
