Power generation

High-quality, reliable and efficient power generation with CCC turbomachinery control solution

A stable power supply is vital for both daily life and industrial operations. The success of modern industry and society depends on generating electricity that is safe, dependable, and continuous. If a major electricity producer fails, it can cause serious problems for public grids as well as homes and businesses. Failure of the public grid can leave thousands of households without power, often during severe weather events when it is much needed. As an example of industrial facility impact, a refinery shutdown due to public grid blackout can cost the owner company as much as $50M of profit loss. For industrial power producers, like refineries, pulp mills, steel mills and others, having top-quality, highly reliable power production is crucial. This ensures smooth operations and independence from possible disruptions in the public grid or weather events along with protection from cybersecurity attacks.

Honeywell | CCC has a lot of experience helping customers to resolve issues and improve their operations, including but not limited to the following list of the most common and influential challenges that we successfully deal with:

• Unstable local grid frequency in island mode
• Process trip and high energy cost due to insufficient steam pressure or steam pressure fluctuations
• Turbine overspeed trip during grid-to-island transition and the need to manually re-start the turbine
• Difficulty to avoid critical speeds during startup and quick response to insufficient steam pressure while accelerating through those critical speeds.
• Complexity of mechanical governor upgrades and retrofits
• High insurance costs due to being non-compliant to API-612 and API-670 standards
• Cybersecurity and update management
• Lack of ability to model and simulate steam and energy production vs. consumption, to make informed decisions about the plant power balance
• Difficulty to manage multiple controls systems for turbomachinery, BOP, boiler management, and other integrated and skid-mounted equipment
• Lack of visibility of the turbine performance, including integration with plant-wide Historian and Analytics Environment
• Maintainability and supportability through service contracts, remote support options
• Difficulty to maintain local expertise and the need to get personnel trained for multiple control systems

Click on the link below to see what exactly solutions will address each of the above-mentioned challenges and many more.