Weekly IIoT Webinars cover the Range of Markets from Power to Cleanrooms and from Centrifuges to Turbines

McIlvaine services cover flow control and treatment for many different industries. The new effort relative to IIoT N031 Industrial IOT and Remote O&M touches on all the industries and all the products which McIlvaine analyzes. Each week there will be an IIoT webinar focused on an industry or subject. A supplier of stainless steel or filter media may not immediately see the relevance of IIoT to his research and marketing efforts. However, IIoT will continuously deliver a myriad of white papers relative to specific fibers, filter media, and stainless vessels and piping. It will provide the materials supplier with knowledge which will help him develop products best suited to each process. IIoT will have major impacts throughout the supply chain. The webinar on Thursday, March 2 will cover IIoT and Remote O&M for coal-fired power plants. You can register for this event plus see scheduled IIoT webinars through August at Weekly IIoT Webinars

Coal-fired Boiler IIoT needs to draw on Accumulated Materials Wisdom

IIoT promises to deliver higher efficiencies and lower operating costs to coal-fired boiler operators around the world. Much of the progress will be dependent on better choices of existing materials and development of new ones.

When linked to remote O&M centers coal-fired boilers in developing countries can perform to the same high levels as units in countries with the greatest reservoir of materials knowledge.

Low cost sensors and wireless transmission will instantly generate huge amounts of data which is analyzed and acted upon by digital process management programs. All the programs need to incorporate a succession of data to information, to knowledge, to wisdom. The digital management from data to knowledge is well advanced, but the digital management to move from knowledge to wisdom is in its infancy. There needs to be a major effort to develop the Industrial Internet of Wisdom (IIoW) to interconnect the expertise of suppliers of materials, products, processes and plants. There needs to be interconnection between plants within a utility as well as with associations, research institutions, and the media. Materials suppliers do not generally deal directly with the end users, so interconnection of this group will be the most challenging.

With IIoT the corrosion rates of materials in the high temperature and pressure regimes created by ultra-supercritical operation will be comprehensively and continuously analyzed. There have been new alloys and new coatings created to deal with temperatures above 1000°F in the steam cycle. There are multiple coating materials and multiple means of application to a range of products from piping to valves.

In the McIlvaine service 44I Coal-fired Power Plant Decisions (formerly PPAQD), there is an ongoing evaluation of high performance valves for temperatures in excess of 750°F. This includes the coatings and other materials but also the valve design (ball, valve, gate) and the seal and component design (trunnion vs. ball etc.). This is just one of the many in depth studies related to coal-fired boilers that the McIlvaine Company has conducted over the years.

McIlvaine has taken the further step of compiling information on all plants within a utility organization. In 4S01 Berkshire Hathaway Energy Supplier and Utility Connect, McIlvaine is gathering information on the high efficiency condensate filter media at one plant vs. the lower efficiency media at another. For each of the boiler baghouses McIlvaine has surveyed the media material (fiberglass vs. PPS vs, P84) media construction (membrane laminate vs. multi nonwoven vs. woven) weight of material, and bag life.

All of these details become important in optimizing plant performance. McIlvaine conducted nine hours of webinars for BHE on reducing NOx at three units. Combustion optimization strategies offered by GE, Siemens, and Emerson had to be tailored to the temperature limitations of the filter media. A new catalytic high temperature filter media offered great promise but was eventually determined to be too costly a process modification.

In IIoT the first principle is to provide structure. This is equally true for IIoW. Among the initiatives already undertaken by McIlvaine to provide part of the structural foundation are the Decision Guides.

·       1ABC Fabric Filter

·       3ABC FGD and DeNOx Knowledge Systems

·       4ABC Electrostatic Precipitator Knowledge Systems

·       N031 Industrial OIT and Remote O&M

IIoW is in its infancy and needs to keep pace with the IIoT progress. McIlvaine will be reaching out to all interested parties. On Thursday, March 2, there will be a webinar on IIoT and Remote O&M for coal-fired boilers. Weekly webinars on products, processes and industries will identify opportunities.

For more information on the weekly webinars click on Weekly IIoT Webinars

IIoT & Remote O&M for Coal-fired Power Plants

The following Table of Contents shows the subjects which are already or will be covered in the Coal-fired Power section in the IIoT and Remote O&M service. Material will be continuously added to the website. Contributions including InterwebviewsT are welcomed. There will be a webinar devoted to this subject on March 2 and then periodically in the future.

Table of Contents (Present and Future)

MARKETS

 

OVERVIEW

 

COMPONENT MONITORING

 

Air Pollution - thousands of pages and many hours of webinars already in 44I Coal-fired Power Plant Decisions (formerly PPAQD) with analysis of mercury, NOx, SO2, CO, CO2, NO2, HCl mass particulate and opacity CEMS. In addition there are complete services on the technologies for Electrostatic Precipitation, FGD, NOx, and Fabric Filtration

DATA ANALYTICS

 

PROCESSORS

 

SOFTWARE

 

DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS

 

ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL

 

SENSORS

Sensors used in combustion optimization

 

COMBUSTION OPTIMIZATION

SMART SOOTBLOWING

 

HIGH TEMPERATURE MICROSENSORS

 

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

REMOTE MONITORING

 

THIRD PARTY O&M

 

Gas Turbines and Reciprocating Engines coverage was enhanced by 50 Minute Webinar Last Week

On February 23 McIlvaine conducted a 50 minute webinar in which major subjects were briefly addressed and more detailed information was briefly displayed for subsequent review. The titles of individual sections are shown below:

Conclusions from the session:

 

IIoT is Creating New Market Paths to the $100 Billion Gas Turbine Repair, Replace and Service Market

The Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) is a powerful new force shaping the way gas turbine products are purchased. The impact of IIoT is being continually assessed in 59EI Gas Turbine and Reciprocating Engine Supplier Program. 

 

 

Gas Turbine, Reciprocating Engine IIoT & Remote O&M Table of Contents

(Present and Future)

MARKETS

 

·      Gas Turbine and Reciprocating Engine IIoT and Remote Markets for Components

·       IIoT is Creating New Market Paths to the $100 Billion Gas Turbine Repair, Replace and Service Market

·       Market Segmentation by Major Component

·       Valves and Pumps Lead Component Purchases

·       Drivers Impacting Product Markets

·       Regulatory Drivers

·       Gas Turbine Opportunities for Valve Companies Shaped by IIoT

·       Multiple Gas Turbine Valve Purchasers with IIoT

·       Inlet Air Filter Monitoring can be combined with Digitized Sourcing Programs

 

SUPPORT PROGRAM

 

·      Gas Turbine Product and Services Enhanced by IIoT

·       This program will help you make the Paradigm shift caused by IIoT and Remote Monitoring

·       Example of Bi Weekly GT Supplier Alert

·       Monthly GTRE Update

·       Projects Updated Every Few Weeks. Here is the Update for November 26, 2016

·       Details on GTCC in Each Country

·       IIoT and Remote O&M Programs allow the Large Owners to Coordinate Operations Across the Fleet

·       Lots of data relative to each component has to be gathered in a digital process management program. If the owner already has that information, the cost of program implementation with be far less.

·       Operating ZLD Systems from McIlvaine GTCC Supplier Program

·       New ZLD projects from McIlvaine GTCC Supplier Program

 

SOFTWARE

 

·       AEP Monitoring with IBM Maximo and Siemens PrismMoni

·       ABB Symphony Plus DCS for Collection and Analysis of Plant Data

·       Schneider Electric is providing Comprehensive Services for Power Plants

·       C3IoT Platforms used at all 24 ENGIE Business Units

·       AECC replaces CEMS with Predictive System for Seven Gas Turbines

 

THIRD PARTY O & M

 

·       Turbine Services Supports Sites with Different Make Turbines

·       ProEnergy is One of Many Third-Party O&M Firms and the Trend is Accelerating

·       IHI has Flexible Suite of O&M Services

·       NRG Energy Services can provide Digital Process Management and Remote Monitoring of its Own and Client Facilities

·       NRG Energy Services providing O&M to Golden Spread for Two Large Gas Turbine Plants

·       Wood

 

REMOTE MONITORING

 

·       Remote O&M, Data Analytics and Subject Matter Experts

·       Laborelec (ENGIE) has Remote Monitoring and Niche Expertise Capability

·       Ethos Energy operates Monitoring and Diagnostic Center

·       Siemens Monitors More Than 9,000 Turbines at its European Data Center

·       GE Gas Turbine Remote Monitoring Center

·       Ansaldo Remote Monitoring and Diagnostic Center

·       IHI Remote Monitoring Center for Gas Turbines

·       MHPS Supplies Records of Daily Activity and Insights on Performance and Availability

·       Parker has Condition Monitoring for Gas Turbines

·       Parker Condition Monitoring for Gas Turbines

 

INDIVIDUAL COMPANY OPPORTUNITIES

 

·       Braden

·       Berkshire Hathaway

 

ENGINE APPLICATIONS

 

·       Diesel and Natural Gas Internal Combustion Generators by State

·       Drivers for the Growth in Use of Gas for Power Generation

·       Factors Favoring Growth in the use of Stationary Engines for Power Generation

·       Age of Gas

·       Natural Gas Production by Type

·       Developing Countries will have Greatest Growth in Consumption

·       Projected Number of New Stationary CI (Diesel) Engines per Year from 2011 through 2017

·       Distributed Power

·       Existing CHP Compared to On-Site Technical Potential by Sector

·       Total U.S. CHP Technical Potential Across All Facility Types

·       Existing Commercial CHP Capacity by Prime Mover

·       Remote Monitoring of Compressor Station Engines with Rockwell PlantPAx

·       Wärtsilä Condition Monitoring

·       Wärtsilä DMP Concept

·       CBM Way of Working

·       How Engine Health is Determined

·       Cummins CHP Systems provide up to 90% Energy Efficiency

·       CO2 Cleaned and Returned to Greenhouse to Gain 30% Plant Growth (600 ppm)

·       H&H SCR System Reduces NOx and delivers CO2 to the Greenhouse. System could be Remotely Monitored

·       Clarke Energy Greenhouse System

·       Biogas Engines

·       Power by Biogas ICEs vs. Central Power Plants

For more information click on N031 Industrial IOT and Remote O&M

 

Bob McIlvaine
President
847-784-0012 ext. 112
rmcilvaine@mcilvainecompany.com
www.mcilvainecompany.com

 

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