Meet redundant level measurement requirements
Protect equipment from damage
Ensure accurate drum level control
Boiler Process Control
Boilers are essential to the efficient operation of a thermal plant.
The frequent cycling that is required during operation can increase the likelihood of mechanical degradation. Operators may find it difficult to swing loads quickly while maintaining optimal steam temperatures.
Prevent mechanical degradation
Maintain optimal steam temperatures
Enhance safety and availability of your boilers
Pressure Measurement
The many processes involved to efficiently generate steam will require pressure monitoring and control of a wide range of pressure applications from very low pressures.
This ranges from furnace draft to eliminate positive furnace pressure excursions, to extremely high pressures when controlling a supercritical steam generator.
Reduce maintenance costs
Ensure accurate pressure monitoring and control
Decrease potential downtime
Temperature Measurement
The best-in-class stability reduces maintenance costs and potential downtime of the pressure measurement process.
Reduce maintenance costs
Choose high performing transmitters for critical control and safety applications
Decrease potential downtime
Condensate Control
One of the most important pieces of equipment in a power plant is the condenser.
The condenser is responsible for providing a high vacuum environment where turbine exhaust steam can be condensed and where condensate can be collected and returned to the steam generator. Condensate pumps must be protected from overheating and cavitation to avoid high maintenance costs, unplanned downtime, and production inefficiencies.
Avoid high maintenance costs, unplanned downtime, and production inefficiencies
Eliminate damage to equipment
Ensure high reliability control
Corrosion and deposition, stemming from poor water chemistry, can result in premature maintenance and downtime of the boiler system.
By maintaining the boiler feedwater within a very narrow range of pH, we can extend the life of the boiler and its associated components. Additionally, high pressure boilers require monitoring of the return condensate to ensure that Total Dissolved Solids (TDS) contamination remains within acceptable limits.
Steam Conditioning
Competing in today’s power market requires the ability to utilize multiple strategies for steam conditioning.
Increased cyclical operation, daily start-stop, and faster ramp rates are used to ensure full load operation at daily peak hours to maximize profit and allow for plant availability.
Achieve better temperature control
Reduce piping and installation restrictions
Improve noise abatement
Heater Drain Control
In a heater drain system, flashing fluids can cause erosion damage to control valves and associated piping.
This can lead to trim failure and high maintenance costs. Production inefficiencies also result from seat leakage and poor heat transfer in heaters.
Protect equipment against damage
Improve production efficiencies
Lower maintenance costs
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Sky Vent Silencing
Valves within a sky vent system bypass steam around the turbine to ensure the unit does not come up to temperature too quickly.
The large pressure differential across the sky vent valve can cause high noise levels that need to be attenuated. Additionally, high temperatures and valve leakage in a sky vent application can reduce plant load and efficiency if the valves are degraded.
Minimize noise generation
Increase plant load and efficiency
Avoid valve leakage and degardation
As power generating facilities swing their output to meet varying demand, they place additional requirements on the turbine bypass valves.
The bypass function requires valves to quickly and accurately change load on the turbine during startup, emergency, or clean-up situations.
Turbines and boiler tubes are generally among the single highest cost assets within a power generation facility, and for this reason, these assets must be protected from operation outside the normal process temperature and pressure operating conditions.
Rely on efficient turbine bypass
Avoid turbine trips and unplanned down time
Protect equipment from damage
Beyond tube leaks, some of the boiler's supporting equipment is susceptible to failure as well.
Rotating equipment, such as your Forced Draft (FD), Induced Draft (ID) and Primary Air (PA) fans, are critical for operations. Neglecting maintenance of rotating equipment contributes to forced outages.