Software: SmartProcess® Plant Optimization Software
•Case Study: SmartProcess Improves Boiler Operation And Temperature Control At WFEC's Hugo Plant
For more than a century now Emerson Process Management Power & Water Solutions has been developing innovative solutions to help power plants improve performance and increase profit margins. Today, in the face of the inevitable challenges of deregulation and an increasingly competitive power marketplace, we continue that tradition.
Our SmartProcess® plant optimization software delivers increased efficiency and tremendous cost savings. SmartProcess utilizes multiregional models, fuzzy-neural technology, and state-of-the-art optimization routines to identify precise control settings for continuous optimal performance under changing conditions such as startup, shutdown, load ramp or baseload operation. Optimization results can be directly integrated into the existing DCS (closed- loop integration) or used for operator advisory purposes.
SmartProcess® modules consider a plant's specific operating constraints and respond to a variety of economic factors, optimizing and enhancing plant processes, regardless of unit size or firing type. SmartProcess® even helps plants to balance conflicting objectives -- for example, achieving lower NOx levels while improving boiler efficiency.
And, because it is DCS-independent, SmartProcess® can dramatically boost your plant's performance no matter what control system is installed.
The success of SmartProcess® has been dramatic. Initial installations have reported savings of more than $500,000 per year. According to EPRI, at a 500 MW plant, even a moderate performance improvement of only .5% can result in a cost savings of well over $300,000 per year. Each SmartProcess® module targets a specific area, improving efficiencies throughout the process:
- Improves Heat Rate
- Stabilizes Steam Temperature Control
- Optimizes Sootblowing
- Minimizes Opacity
- Minimizes NOx, CO2 and CO Emissions
- Identifies Controllable Losses
- Reduces Plant Maintenance Costs
- Reduces Unplanned Outages
- Optimizes the distribution of load demands across multiple units or unit components
- A suite of intelligent software modules proven to significantly reduce NOx; lower opacity; stablize steam temperature; improve overall boiler efficiency; cost-effectively distribute load demand across multiple units; improve environmental compliance across a fleet of generating units; and more!
- SmartProcess® modules optimize control and monitoring of plant processes within operational and regulatory limits, enhancing plant efficiency and decreasing operating costs
- Unlike steady state optimization products, SmartProcess® modules dynamically optimize the process throughout the full plant operating range
- Optimization results can be integrated directly into the existing control system for closed loop integration of optimal control setpoints and biases, or used for operator advisory purposes
- Platform independent, SmartProcess® can be applied to any distributed control system
- From initial site assessment through final commissioning, SmartProcess® offers a comprehensive and proven optimization solution that leverages Emerson's industry applications expertise, extensive project management experience, and industry leading software technology
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•Case Study: SmartProcess Improves Boiler Operation And Temperature Control At WFEC's Hugo Plant