Combined Cycle Startup Issues
(Business Benefits Analysis Studies)
Our expertise with modeling and predicting thousands of unit start-ups along with our advanced in-house engineering tools enable us to offer detailed Business Engineering Studies for your frequent start-up issues.
Plant Output and Heat Rate Performance Studies
Our engineers will analyze operational data from your plant to determine constraints on plant output and heat rate. We will identify and quantify opportunities for improvements in all parts of your plant’s generation profile: startup, low load, high load and shutdown. Where a plant has multiple generation units, we can determine root causes for differences in performance between the units. As part of this process we will study the performance of control loops within your plant, since stable control behavior is often the key to moving closer to operational limits and gaining additional competitive advantage.
Real Time Prediction, Control and Optimization
Before and After Comparison Studies Following a major outage or upgrade, we can conduct an independent study for you to determine changes in output and heat rate. For gas turbines we can also provide estimates of changes in mass flow and firing temperature. These studies allow you to verify that improved plant performance has not been gained at the expense of increased plant maintenance costs.
Real Time Power’s software solutions are also applicable to other industrial sectors where the accurate prediction of chemical, physical and thermodynamic properties is a requirement in order to obtain tighter control and ultimately optimization of the production process. The continuously adaptive process models will also allow you to track changes in raw material or plant equipment performance and deliver high accuracy prediction, high precision control and high value optimization results at all times.