How to Increase Reliable Starts in Combustion Turbines
Combined Cycle units and peaking CTS are under tremendous stress from frequent cycling…stress is only getting worse. More stress leads to more failed starts, more trips, more forced outages and more costs. Maintenance Costs are increasing and generation revenue is decreasing. When CTs do not run, plants can fall short of their goals.
Up to 50 percent of forced outages in combined cycle plants are due to CT issues. Even with OEM support, CTs experience three trips/year, on average, with at least one at full load. In addition, failed starts cause delays in getting online up to five times/year. The results are devastating. According to NERC Generating Data Availability System (GADS) data, combined cycle forced outage costs attributed to the CT average $500K/unit year in lost generation revenue—and failed starts and trips cost over $200K in accelerated maintenance allocations.
In this webinar two representatives from SRP discussed how they addressed these problems, and how SRP came to embrace equipment monitoring solutions and their benefits.
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"Our customers told us that, even with support from their OEMs, they still suffered from frequent failed starts, trips, and outages in startup. So, we developed a new product that uses patent-protected technology, including a new modeling approach called VBM, to give them more insight into each startup cycle. VBM is the only technology that can analyze the highly variable conditions of startup and detect subtle deviations from normal. After conducting successful beta tests, we are releasing CycleWatch to the entire power generation industry.
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Jim Gagnard
CEO
SmartSignal