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Mr. Edmonds specializes in power systems for electric power generation, covering all aspects of electric rotating machinery including on-line machine condition monitoring and power plant equipment diagnostic techniques, which includes electronic processing equipment and communication technologies.
In this position, Mr. Edmonds has been responsible for leading design and failure investigations on large turbo and hydro generators, requiring detailed analyses of the generator stator core, stator windings and rotors elements. These investigations have required a detailed knowledge of the generating equipment, unit control systems and protective relaying schemes, monitoring systems, and plants operation and maintenance procedures.
Using these investigative skills, Mr. Edmonds has developed root-cause analyses for equipment design and installation defects, for relay and control misoperations, and for electrical equipment malfunctions that were responsible for cascading events and major process and system losses.
Prior to joining Exponent, Mr. Edmonds was Co-Founder and Executive Vice President of MCM Enterprise Limited, responsible for the introduction, marketing, and sales of the company’s prime products: rotor mounted scanners for hydro-generators and lead acid battery monitoring systems. Mr. Edmonds supported the users of the diagnostic systems by providing interpretation and analysis of the diagnostic data.
For 13 years Mr. Edmonds was a Project/Program Manager for the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), where he led advanced-technology research and development programs for improved power generation. This comprised technology assessments, technology development, product applications, market research, as well as commercialization aspects. It gave Mr. Edmonds an in-depth insight into the root causes leading to plant outages and performance limitations. EPRI’s management selected Mr. Edmonds to serve at the National Science Foundation for one year as an electric utility industry research advisor. Prior to joining EPRI, he held a similar management position at DOE-ERDA. While at ERDA, he was chosen to chair a Source Evaluation Board for the selection of a contractor to develop a 300-MVA superconducting generator for power plant demonstration and co-managed three Compressed Air Energy Storage (CAES) demonstration projects.
As Staff Electrical Engineer with American Electric Power, Mr. Edmonds was responsible for all aspects of electric rotating machinery applications. This included evaluation of new equipment designs, establishing existing plant maintenance and refurbishment programs, and management of the decommissioning and disposal of retired rotating machinery systems, as well as coordination of equipment contracts for new power plant construction. Mr. Edmonds also has conducted onsite equipment testing and evaluations and instituted a unique application of a retired turbine-generator to stabilize power-line voltages in a local region. | 