Performance Improvement
We help
power plant owners & operators that are frustrated
with performance issues
If you’re like many power plant
owners and operators, you have seen a dramatic shift from operations
and maintenance excellence
to just keeping the plant running with minimal staff. Availability
is the major focus and performance is often way down the list
of priorities. Many plant owners and operators struggle with
performance
issues because of time or manpower limitations.
Some statements we've heard from our clients may sound familiar:
We know that
there are issues with plant or component performance. We’d
like to improve our plant’s performance but I don’t
have the time or manpower to investigate.
We’ve run
the plant for years without major problems. How much is this
costing me? If you’re like many power plant
owners and operators, just keeping the
plant running
is what you concentrate on. Performance is at the bottom of the list. But we know that performance can eat profits.
How do you improve performance?
Regaining
control of plant performance is a seven-step process
- Audit the facility to find common areas of performance improvement
- Assess plant operation to identify the biggest performance issues
- Estimate the cost to improve each improvement area
- Select the best return
for your investment
- Develop an improvement plan
- Implement
changes or equipment maintenance
- Verify improvement
Understanding where performance is
slipping and developing solutions may improve efficiency
by 1% to 5%. Attention
to performance
would save fuel costs and increase profit.
Knowing your
plant’s
performance can also detect major component issues before
they lead to a major outage.
Our testing experience has
taken us into many types of
energy facilities working with equipment from most major
vendors.
We’ve
seen plant designs from almost every power plant A/E. Using
our backgrounds
in engineering, startup, operations, and testing, we can
help you iden-tify issues, resolve problems, and optimize
your plant
using
solid experience. We also have experience in applying the guidelines provided by ASME test codes to other specialized industries, such as Ethanol production facilities.
Some of our recent consulting work
includes:
- Short and long-term asset management
- Plant performance assessment
and audit
- Due diligence audits
- Resolution of test disputes & expert
witness testimony
- Plant & power house modeling
- Dispatch schedule optimization
- Dynamic Dispatch model for
use by trading groups and asset managers
- Decision analysis
and risk-benefit studies
- Heat rate or net output improvement
programs
- Troubleshooting and resolution of instrumentation
issues
As a specialized engineering and consulting organization,
McHale & Associates,
Inc. is the industry leader in power plant performance
and optimization. When you need performance, call McHale.
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