Plant Performance Monitoring and Analysis
Plant Performance Monitoring and Analysis
Shrinking fuel resources, CO2 pressures and volatile fuel prices have forced everyone in the sector to minimize the cost of power generation without compromising on the productivity. Maximizing the efficiency with which the fuel is converted into electricity has become the priority in the power industry. Therefore, today the power sector strategy has shifted from “Generation Maximization” to “Performance optimization & Generation maximization”.
Equipment performance of power plants or any process industry degrades with time and with the influence of its working environment. However, it can be addressed by properly identifying and closely monitoring the system using the process mathematical models or using input output methods. Plant Performance Monitoring offering under Kalkitech’s Eltrix Generation Optimization umbrella is state of art real time performance monitoring solution extensively used by various power generation utilities having Thermal, Gas, combined cycle, co-generation and hydro generation.
Equipment performance of power plants or any process industry degrades with time and with the influence of its working environment. However, it can be addressed by properly identifying and closely monitoring the system using the process mathematical models or using input output methods. Plant Performance Monitoring offering under Kalkitech’s Eltrix Generation Optimization umbrella is state of art real time performance monitoring solution extensively used by various power generation utilities having Thermal, Gas, combined cycle, co-generation and hydro generation.
Support Documents
- Efficiency calculation of primary & auxiliary equipments in a power plant
- Identify equipment de-gradation and controllable losses
- Define Key Performance Indicator linked to plant efficiency and monitor online
- Heat balance analysis
- Validation of process data and accounting of instrumentation errors
- Overall Power Plant Performance & expected performance
- Impact & What if Analysis on Plant Performance
- Semantic models of plant equipments and connectivity
- Seamless Integration with plant control & monitoring systems like DCS/DAS systems
ADDITIONAL BENEFITS
Performance calculation, monitoring and analysis deliver certain additional values when integrated with other solutions within the power plant eco system
- Performance Optimization to improve efficiency by reducing heat losses
- Equipment Stress monitoring, diagnosis and lifetime monitoring
- Reliability Centric Plant Maintenance and minimizing plant down times
- Build plant equipment & connectivity models from Eltrix model builder by simple drag-drop operations
- Option to import the model from external system like DCS over an OPC-UA interface
- Creation of measurement & history database on a button click
- Performance Calculation templates, standard templates available based on ASME-PTC
- Quick generation of performance calculations by applying calculation templates on Plant equipment & connectivity model
- Validation & reconciliation techniques to ensure the quality & consistency of measurements
- Substitution based on curve fitting in case of faulty field instruments
- Calculation done on a moving window to ensure the steady state and accurate values
- Calculation outputs can be exchanged with external systems like ERP, Asset Management or Plant MIS.
- Capability to handle multiple generating units & plants
- Eltrix Web Portal provides a web based interface to visualize Plant Performance data on real time over a rich set of plant mimics.
- Rich set of reports, charts and analytics on plant performance data.
Following are the major components that is delivered as part of Eltrix Plant Performance Monitoring offering
Eltrix Engineering Editor is a rich client interface which allows you to configure your plant data, build equipment and connectivity models, generate measurement and history database, input plant design values and fit correlation curves, configure OPC UA/ OPC DA interface for real-time & history data that needs to be exchanged with external systems.
Eltrix Runtime Server is the server component which performs the real time data update, objects oriented storage & retrieval of data, performance/efficiency computations, does the analysis functions, it has an OPC UA/DA communication driver which writes back the output data to external system over a TCP/IP or Web Service transportation layer.
Eltrix Decision Portal is the end user interface for plant operators or managers to visualize & analyze the plant performance data, its impacts over rich set of plant mimic, charts and reports. Users can create information dashboards to monitor key performance indicators. Support of Web 2.0 technology makes it possible to deliver time critical information over a standard web client.
