About Us
The mission of T2E3, Inc. is to improve the generation and use of energy in our community.
T2E3 was formed in 2007 by Tina Toburen, and was incorporated to T2E3, Inc. in 2010. Tina's many years of experience in the power generation industry include time working for small companies, utilities and Fortune 500 companies. She has been involved in providing services as a third party, as well as working from within an industrial powerhouse with multiple internal "customers".
Tina has her Master's of Science degree in Mechanical Engineering, and is a registered professional engineer in the state of Washington.
Affiliations:
- ASME Power Division Executive Committee - vice chair
- ASME Council on Standards and Certification - member at large
- ASME Board on Standardization and Testing - member
- ASME Performance Test Codes (PTC) Standards Committee - member
- ASME Reliability, Availability and Performance (RAP) Standards Committee - chair
- ASME RAP-PM - Performance Monitoring; chair
- ASME PTC 51 - Combustion Turbine Inlet Air Conditioning Equipment; member
- ASME PTC 70 - Ramp Rates; member
- ASME PTC 19.3 - Temperature Measurement; contributing member
- ASME Member
- Tau Beta Pi Lifetime Member
Publications / Technical Papers:
"How the use of Limited Plant Data can Support LImited Improvements in Combined Cycle Operation"; J.M. Perez, T.L. Toburen, ASME ICONE/Power Conference Proceedings, 2012
"Appliations of PTC-51 Gas Turbine Inlet Air Conditions Equipment"; T.L. Toburen, ASME Power Conference Proceedings, 2011
"An Experience with ASME PTC-70 Ramp Rates"; T.L. Toburen, ASME Power Conference Proceedings, 2010
“Energy Efficiency by Optimizing Annual Testing Schedules – Coordinating RATA Testing with other Annual Test Requirements”; T.L. Toburen, Allen Kephart, Rhonda Walker, ASME Power Conference Proceedings, 2009
"Incremental Heat Rate and Optimization - New Applications for ASME PTC-PM Performance Monitoring Guideline"; T. Toburen, S. Korellis, J. Milton; Presented at ASME Power 2008
"Monitoring Compressor Efficiency for Maximum Performance"; T.L. Toburen, Presented at PowerGen 2007
"Managing Power Generation Assets to Maximize Profits"; T.L. Toburen (McHale & Associates, Inc.), www.EnergyPulse.net, 2004
"A Long Term Assessment of Plant Performance"; M.P. McHale, T.L. Toburen (Raytheon Engineers & Constructors), T. Miller, T. Grigg (Lone Star Energy), ASME Conference Papers, 1995