subject: Power Plant Performance Calculations & Monitoring [print this page] Power Plant Performance Calculations & Monitoring
Equipment performance of power plants or any process industry degrades with time and with the influence of its working environment. After few years of operation, the performance of the power plant starts declining. As a result, the cost of production of power increases. Hence, there is a need of a monitoring system or an optimization process which would allow the plat operators/ Management to take decisions under different real time constraints. There must be intelligent and open decision support systems to guide the stake holders across various decision scenarios, so that the decision is optimal. The models used should be open and transformable to new scenarios, and all decisions can be well connected resulting in achievement of end goals and objectives for utilities or consumers.
The solution should also take care of auxiliary equipments in the power plant. Focus should be on Turbines, Boilers, Economizers, Super heaters, Evaporators, Engines, Condensers, Heaters, Deaerators, Pumps and cooling towers. Solution should provide a web portal with rich set of analytics for its customers to define a benchmark and closely monitor the Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) associated with problem domain. This would provide an option for the decision makers and operators to have a close watch on how the decision models are performing and delivering the intended results.
Today there are some solutions available in the market which do the equipment wise performance calculations. However, the need of the hour is a complete solution for monitoring and optimization.
Kalkitech's Plant performance monitoring is a state of art real time performance monitoring solution extensively used by various power generation utilities having thermal, gas, combined cyclce, co-generation and hydro generation.
