Thermal Economic Monitoring and

Performance Optimizer (TEMPO)

What do users think about TEMPO?

“TEMPO increased our profit margin by millions of dollars by helping us run our power plants more effectively in today's market.”                 - Darren Stephens, DENA

"The graphics and analysis pages were very effective, we were able to quickly identify instrumentation errors and problems with equipment.”    - David Bowers, Encogen Four Energy Facility

McHale developed the Thermal Economic Monitoring and Performance Optimizer (TEMPO) system as an on-line performance monitoring and reporting tool for enhancing power plant performance and profitability. TEMPO is under continual development by performance test engineers with extensive plant performance knowledge and testing experience.

Performance Monitoring & Reporting Systems are:

• Installed at more than 20 facilities
• Customized systems for reporting plant performance and availability
• Integrated with plant control systems (DCS), data historians and office networks
• Used by operations, engineering, management, accounting and energy traders

The TEMPO system features help your staff operate and maintain your plant effectively.

Flexibility - Client computers can access and view plant and component models and graphics based on either real-time or historical data. Systems can be built using existing plant software and programs, or customized programs, including SQL databases can be built on an as-needed basis. Data inputs can be a mixture of DCS data, networked file or database information and manual data.

Accessibility - Plots, graphs, and charts of archived performance calculations can be viewed across the office network, including remote locations with proper security access. Access to real-time plant data and TEMPO Functions in Excel allows user to create custom performance calculation spreadsheets

Automatic Daily Report Generation - Reports for Operations, Management, and Energy Traders can be generated automatically every morning. Automatic reports show Daily, Month-To-Date, and Year-To-Date plant performance. Daily Shift and Dispatch reports can also be generated.

Access to TEMPO Functions - Steam Tables, Psychrometric Tables, and properties for natural gas, turbine exhaust gas, air and more are made available to all your Excel workbooks with the TEMPO add-in for Excel.

Custom Plant Displays for the Overall Plant and for Plant Components - These displays show DCS data and performance summaries.

Results available directly on the DCS – Results calculated in the TEMPO modules can be sent back to the DCS for display on Operator screens, allowing operations to monitor plant and component performance while maintaining their focus on the control systems.

Analysis Modules for calculating Overall Plant and for Plant Component performance - The Analyses either can be automatically updated with real-time data, or can be run manually using archived data for a chosen time period.

Please contact us for a Demo.