| Top Ten Requirements for Successful Boiler Optimization |
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Ray Johnson
VP, Business Development
NeuCo, Inc.
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Automated closed-loop optimization systems from various suppliers have been in production now for about 15 years. Some of those systems have run continuously for many years, being adapted and modified as required to continue providing significant benefits. Other systems on identical boilers, running identical fuels, under similar or identical operational constraints have been considered failures and turned off never to run again. How could this happen and why?
Based on observations and discussions with customers, both successful and not so successful, the following factors come to the forefront as requirements for successful deployment of combustion optimization systems.
Peter Spinney and I put our heads together to summarize this list and...
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| How CPS J.T.Deely Achieved Big Benefits In the Face of Known Problems |
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Peter Spinney
Market and Technology Assessment
NeuCo, Inc.
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During the first quarter of 2010, CPS Energy’s J.T. Deely Station was operating with the worst coal it had ever burned, with big hard chunks of limestone at the bottom of the coal piles seriously degrading mill fineness. The plant also discovered a subtle but serious logic problem in the DCS affecting mill (primary) air control. While both problems were discovered early in the New Year, it was going to require three months or more to resolve them.
Historically, there has been a predisposition among control room operators to disable combustion optimization systems once problems of this magnitude are discovered, awaiting their resolution to re-engage. At CPS Deely, however, Plant Management and Engineering, in conjunction with NeuCo's Customer Support team, had been working...
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| EPA Announces Long-Awaited CAIR Replacement |
Peter Spinney
Market and Technology Assessment
NeuCo, Inc.
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As you likely already know, on July 6th the EPA announced the long-awaited replacement to the CAIR regulations for NOx and SO2. A December 2008 court decision kept the requirements of CAIR in place temporarily but directed EPA to issue a new rule to implement the Clean Air Act requirements concerning the transport of air pollution across state boundaries, for which the new "Transport Rule” is the EPA's response.
The EPA's new proposal requires 31 states and the District of Columbia to significantly improve air quality by 2012 through reducing power plant emissions that contribute to ozone and fine particle pollution in other states. It sets a pollution limit for each... [Read More] |
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| We'd Like Your Input; The Next Plant Optimization Tour Fall 2010 |
Peter Spinney
Market and Technology Assessment
NeuCo, Inc.
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Several customers have been asking for the details of our next Plant Optimization Tour and I'm pleased to say another one is in the works for this Fall. But before we finalize the date and location, we want to get your input.
Please take a moment to fill out this short survey so we can tailor the tour to your needs: <Click here to take survey
The Plant Optimization Tour has been very successful since we introduced the concept last September. Customers and others interested in optimization technology get to see our optimizers in action and interact...
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