The “Hurry up” Pace for Flow Control and Treatment
Jeffrey Immelt of GE has called upon industry to adopt the same “hurry up” pace
endemic to Silicon Valley. This statement was made in conjunction with the
initiative to maximize the value of information communicated by machines. This
information can be used to improve operations and maintenance. GE outlines
impressive advantages of massive machine to machine communication. This leads to
speculation that the information generated by pumps, valves, fans, etc. could be
worth more than the equipment itself.
McIlvaine is currently conducting a series of webinars for a large U.S. utility
which is considering optimization systems offered by GE, Siemens, Emerson,
Doosan and others. Better machine communication can contribute a NOx reduction
of more than 10 percent. However, since the utility needs to achieve at least 70
percent reduction at four plants, optimization will only be part of the
strategy. It now appears that the most cost effective solution is a combination
of five or more technologies.
For this specific project the solution could involve the GE NeuCo optimization
system in Massachusetts, the GE combustion (CE) in Connecticut, the GE (formerly
Betz) treatment chemicals in Pennsylvania and the GE (formerly Alstom/CE)
scrubbing technologies (Tennessee and Sweden) along with changes in wastewater
treatment and maybe even ZLD as furnished by the GE water groups in Minnesota,
Washington and other areas. The utility has to determine the best interaction of
all these technologies. GE also has to maximize the communication among its own
technology providers who, as previously independent companies, are not part of a
seamless operation.
The series of webinars using the McIlvaine Global Decisions Orchard
http://www.mcilvainecompany.com/Decision_Tree/subscriber/Tree/Default.htm is
demonstrating the value of organization and decisive classification but also a
“hurry up” pace through the power of the wise crowd. The utility will likely
choose a unique combination of technologies which had not been envisioned at the
beginning of the two-month webinar series. Unexpected input from many different
sources has made a major contribution to the likely choice.
The Wikipedia entry for the wise crowd provides the following criteria:
Wise Crowd Criteria
Criteria Description
Diversity of opinion
Each person should have private information even if it's just an eccentric
interpretation of the known facts.
Independence People's opinions aren't determined by the opinions of those around
them.
Decentralization People are able to specialize and draw on local knowledge.
Aggregation Some mechanism exists for turning private judgments into a
collective decision.
All these criteria have been met with the webinar and Decision Guide approach
used on this project. McIlvaine intends to take full advantage of the wise crowd
in the future.
For more information on the specific Decision Guides being used by power plants
for flow and treatment decisions, click on:
44I Power Plant Air Quality Decisions
59D Gas Turbine and Combined Cycle Decisions
For more input on how wise crowd initiatives will be used to help various
suppliers, click on:
N028 Industrial Valves: World Market
N019 Pumps World Market
N027 FGD Market and Strategies
N035 NOx Control World Market
N026 Water and Wastewater Treatment Chemicals: World Market
N020 RO, UF, MF World Market
Utility E-Alert Tracks Billions of Dollars of New Coal-fired Power Plants on a
Weekly Basis
Here are some headlines from the Utility E-Alert.
UTILITY E-ALERT
#1288 – September 2, 2016
Table of Contents
COAL – US
• NRG’s Limestone Electric Generating Station to switch to Cleaner Coal
• Southwest Research Institute will lead $3.3 Million Oxy-Combustion Pilot Plant
Study
• Environmentalists win lawsuit against E. D. Edwards Coal-fired Power Plant in
Illinois
• NRG Penalized for Faulty Wastewater Treatment at Maryland Coal-fired Power
Plants
• Major Coal Waste cleanup Project at Clinch River in Southwest Virginia
• Revision of State Permits will trigger ELG Expenditures
COAL – WORLD
• PLN calls for Tender to build Two Power Plants
• Indonesia Cirebon 2 Coal-fired Power Project appoints Black & Veatch as
Consultants
• Hollysys wins Contract to provide Proprietary Distributed Control System for
Ultra-Supercritical Coal-fired Power Generating Units to Fujian Luoyuanwan
• Dutch must close Older Coal-fired Power Plants to meet Energy Targets
The 41F Utility E-Alert is issued weekly and covers the coal-fired projects,
regulations and other information important to the suppliers. It is $950/yr. but
is included in the $3020 42EI Utility Tracking System which has data on every
plant and project plus networking directories and many other features.
Upcoming Hot Topic Hours
DATE HOT TOPIC HOUR AND DECISION GUIDE SCHEDULE
The opportunity to interact on important issues
September 8, 2016
11:30am CDT PacifiCorp Webinar 5 on front end NOx reduction - Review of options
for NOx reduction including combustion modifications, reburn, SNCR, and
optimization with review of previous presentations of Emerson, Doosan, Siemens
and GE. A number of case histories, now being posted to PPAQD, will also be
reviewed. Summaries of phone calls to end users may also be included.
TBA
Markets Food - Analysis of 12 separate applications within food and beverage
with analysis of valve, pump, compressor, filter, analyzer and chemical options;
impact of new technologies such as forward osmosis.
TBA
Markets Municipal Wastewater - Quality of pumps, valves, filters, and analyzers
in Chinese and Asian plants; new pollutant challenges; water purification for
reuse.
TBA
Markets Mobile Emissions -Reduction in CO, VOCs, and particulate in fuels, oils,
and air used in on and off road vehicles; impact of RDE and failure of NOx traps
and the crisis in Europe created by the focus on clean diesel.
Click here to Register for the Webinars
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Bob McIlvaine
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