Power`s first powerplant IT profiles
The plants described here represent the many ways instrumentation and sensors: distributed control systems (DCS); final control elements; and hardware and software packages for such functions as process optimization, performance monitoring, maintenance management, and compliance monitoring are being (1) integrated into a seamless electronic data and information network within the plant boundaries; (2) interfaced with critical functions eternal to the plant, such as energy management, corporate business and personnel systems, and regulatory authorities; and (3) used to invigorate work processes, and plant and corporate-wide organizational structures. In many ways, powerplant IT systems are analogous to the mechanical and process systems they serve. Islands of automation or information must be piped or ducted together so they perform together harmoniously. This theme repeats itself many times in these 10 profiles and the nine vignettes which follow. Instead of the boiler island, the turbine island, the water treatment plant, and so on that one might read about in Power`s April plant profiles, here are described the DCS, the process optimization package, the data archiving system, the maintenance workstation, the valve management PC, the sootblower optimization schedule, and so on.
- OSTI ID:
- 418009
- Journal Information:
- Power (New York), Journal Name: Power (New York) Journal Issue: 8 Vol. 140; ISSN 0032-5929; ISSN POWEAD
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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