Our company has spent a lot of time and money to improve control loop performance in the field. We now have reliable controllers that will allow us to move our setpoints closer to manufacturing limits. Unfortunately, just because we CAN ...
Year: 2004
This paper presents a, "Real-Time Wind Power Portfolio Manager (RT-WPPM)", developed by Prasentia LLC, from the Owner/Operator perspective to portfolio based wind power operation and performance management. The product is based on the PI core technologies of PI-OPC, PI-SDK, Unit ...
Year: 2004
This presentation describes how the Calpine Geothermal group used PI to assist in the transition of five different power company systems (obtained by the all-too-familiar acquisition scenarios) into a unified system, reducing costs, streamlining processes, retiring legacy equipment, and implementing ...
Year: 2004
In a multi supplier market, over or under production by a generating unit can be costly. Using process data from over 50 generating units across 16 sites, this system provides the unit operators with a real-time view of the commercial ...
Year: 2004
The International Engineering Consortium (IEC) 61850 standard was initially developed for intra-substation device communications. Today it is being globally used as a standard for substations, wind power, hydroelectric, and distributed generation. This presentation will discuss IEC 61850 fundamentals, the use ...
Year: 2005