EfficiencyMap™

EfficiencyMap - Performance Monitoring System

Power Plant Performance Monitoring and Optimization

A comprehensive performance monitoring system designed for simple and combined cycle, conventional coal-fired steam and nuclear power plants. EfficiencyMap helps to accurately measure and track plant performance changes and to predict the most profitable way to run your plant.

Product Overview

EfficiencyMap is an online, real time performance monitoring system that tracks power plant equipment degradation over time using plant measured data combined with sophisticated analytical models of equipment performance. Once the degradation of the equipment is known, EfficiencyMap will suggest the optimal plant operating mode to maximize plant operating profits at current environmental and economic conditions. Plant Optimization System
Benefits
  • Accurately measures equipment and overall plant degradation
  • Reduces downtime by pinpointing problem areas in advance
  • Validates measurements using model-based plant mass and energy balances
  • Proactively identifies sensors with poor or degrading accuracy
  • Optimizes plant operations to maximize profitability
  • Provides reliable prediction of generation capability and operational costs

Features

Online Heat Balance Module
The heat balance module tunes a mass and energy balance model of the plant to match measured data as closely as possible. Discrepancies between the model and the measured data indicate errors in the data.

Performance Module
The performance module uses GateCycle™ equipment models to predict the expected performance of major equipment. The difference between expected and current performance is degradation. The performance module tracks degradation over time so you can identify the performance problems that have the greatest effect on changes in plant power and heat rate.

Optimizer™ Module
Our Optimizer module tells you the most profitable way to run your plant given current prices, load levels and equipment degradation. This module maximizes the profitability, rather than the efficiency, of your plant by combining plant heat balances with a plant financial model.

Turnkey Installation and Service
We install a completely configured EfficiencyMap system on a computer with a connection to your plant DCS and perform acceptance tests to prove its accuracy.