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Industrial Plants and Projects Demonstration

IIoT and Remote O&M for Coal Fired Power Plants
(Present and Future Contents)

MARKETS

• Power Plant IIoT and Remote O&M Market by Regions and Year through 2030
• Coal-fired Boiler Forecast
• Potential for Third Party O&M
• $125 Billion/yr. Power Plant IoT Instrumentation, Software, and Service Opportunity
• Market Segmentation by Major Component
• Drivers Impacting Product Markets
• Regulatory Drivers
  • National and Local Regulations impacting Air and Water (The newsletter archives have monthly reporting of regulations in various countries from 1999 forward)
  • Move Towards Electronic Reporting for All New Regulations (Not Simply Emailing Documents)
• Smart Instrumentation Opportunity
• Component Monitoring in Power Plants
• Remote O&M, Data Analytics and Subject Matter Experts
• Venture Capital backed new Entries in IIoT

OVERVIEW

• Changing routes to Market due to Remote O&M
• Changing Pace of Innovation due to IIoT
• Potential for International Suppliers to reach the Booming Asian Coal Fired Market
• How McIlvaine can help coordinate IIoT and IIoW

COMPONENT MONITORING

• Valves- webinars and data in the system on valves for FGD, ultrapure water, boiler feedwater, steam
• Pumps - analysis of energy saving with VFD in boiler feedwater, special designs to improve pumps for FGD recycle slurries
• Compressors - webinar on compressor choice for FGD
• Fans - coverage of axial and radial fans for air preheating, flue gas, FGD
• Filters - use in wastewater, ultrapure water, condensate, lubrication
• Air Pollution - thousands of pages and many hours of webinars already in Coal Fired Power Plants with analysis of mercury, NOx, SO₂, CO, CO₂, NO₂, HCl mass particulate and opacity CEMS.  In addition there are compete services on the technologies for Electrostatic Precipitation, FGD, NOx, and Fabric Filtration
• NOx Control Inventory Management and Telemetry Services from Yara

DATA ANALYTICS

• XMPLR

PROCESSORS

• Schneider ePAC Controller managed from Open Ethernet Backbone
• Rockwell Mobility Collaboration
• Yokogawa focus on Process Automation controlling Gases and Liquids
• SCADA Systems (SCADA is the Glue for IIoT)
• SCADA Digitalization through Data Management, Information Management, Energy Management, Diagnostics Management and Open Communications-Siemens
• PLC Logging-Data Archiving-Siemens
• Process Historian – Comprehensive Archiving-Siemens
• SCADA Digitalization through Information Management- Siemens
• Data Management Logging-Siemens
• Web-based Operator Control and Monitoring
• Open Communication-Siemens
• ExxonMobil's Plan for the Future of Process Automation
• Eaton DR Evolution – Products & Solutions
• Kontron Second Largest ECT Provider

SOFTWARE

• Schneider Electric Wonderware System Platform Industrial Automation Solution
• Schneider Electric Enterprise Control System
• GE Digital
• Wind River (Intel)
• Huawei ICT
• Bosch Software Innovations
• SoftDEL
• OSISoft
• Seeq Interactive, Visual Tools to Analyze Industrial Process Data
• ValvKeep and OSHA Process Safety Management
• ValvKeep Lays the Foundation for Remote O&M
• Donaldson Remote Monitoring of Bulk Filtration Systems
• Analysis of IoT Pump Opportunities by John Hilberg of Accudyne
• AMI
• Meshify IoT Solutions for Pumps and Other Flow Control and Treatment Processes
• Decisive Classification is the Key to Integration with Software
• Platform Levels and why Level 3 is the Future
• GE Power and Tepco Will Jointly Develop Solutions for Japanese Fleet Using Predix

 

DISTRIBUTED CONTROL SYSTEMS 

• ABB -Symphony
• Alstom (GE?) – Alspa
• Emerson – Ovation
• GE – Mark VI
• Hitachi (now MHPS) – HIAC and DIAYSYS
• Honeywell – Experion
• Metso – DNA
• Rockwell – Plantpax
• Schneider Electric (Invensys) – Foxboro
• Siemens – SPPA-P3000
• Yokogawa - Centum

ADVANCED PROCESS CONTROL

• Artificial Intelligence
  • Fuzzy Logic
  • Expert Systems
  • Model Based Optimization
    • Neural Networks
    • Model Predictive Control
    • Model Free Adaptive Control

SENSORS

 Sensors used in combustion optimization  

• Oxygen
• Tunable diode laser spectroscopy - presentations by Yokogawa, Siemens, and Zolo in Mcilvaine webinars
• CO
• NOx  
• Temperature  
• Carbon-in-ash  
• Coal Flow
• Air Flow 
• Flame Detectors

 Combustion Optimization  

• GE NeuCo CombustionOpt - 2 presentations in Mcilvaine PacifiCorp webinars
• ABB Predict & Control  
• Emerson SmartProcess - presentation in Mcilvaine PacifiCorp webinar
• Schneider Electric Invensys Connoisseur  
• Siemens SPPA-P3000 - presentation in Mcilvaine PacifiCorp webinar with inclusion of Zolo TDL
• EUtech EUcontrol
• STEAG Powitec PiT Navigator  

 Smart Sootblowing  

• GE NeuCo SootOpt - presentation in Mcilvaine webinar
• Taber Knowledge-based Sootblowing  
• Siemens SPPA-P3000  

 Online monitoring of corrosive species  

• Metso Corrored,  
• Zolo SALT  

Advanced optical sensors and imaging

• Optical fibre sensors, Fabry-Perot interferometer, Fibre Bragg grating
• Gas sensors using microstructured fibres  
• Distributed optical fibre sensing
• Embedded optical fibre sensors
• Advanced spectroscopic techniques
• Raman spectroscopy
• Flame imaging  

HIGH TEMPERATURE MICROSENSORS

• High temperature gas sensors (solid electroyte, conductometric, microresonant)
• High temperature silicon-based sensors (temperature pressure)
• Metallic thin film sensors

WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORKS

REMOTE MONITORING

• Remote Monitoring Service Architecture - Emerson
• Remote Monitoring with Service in the Cloud - Emerson
• Bringing in the Suppliers for Maintenance Expertise – Emerson
• MHPS is Remotely Monitoring Coal Fired Plants from the Philippines
• MHPS Combining OSIsoft Monitoring Software with Cloud Based Analytics in Strategic Alliance
• Remote Water Chemistry Control - Nalco
• Nalco Data Management for Cooling Towers
• Sensor Improvement Enhances Remote Monitoring Mettler Toledo
• Thermo Remote Monitoring and Diagnostic Service Includes Proactive Support for Laboratories

THIRD PARTY O&M

• Uniper and India Power Joint Venture for Power Plant Services
• Luminant
• Duke

Potential for BHE facilitated by Mcilvaine Program

Air and Water Monitoring: World Markets Report Demonstration