EfficiencyMap Software

Plant Optimization & Performance Monitoring

The EfficiencyMap power plant optimization and performance monitoring system is designed for simple and combined cycle, conventional coal-fired steam and nuclear plants. The system helps your plant operational staff to predict the most profitable way to run your plant and to measure and track plant performance changes.

Features & Benefits

  • Optimizes plant operations to maximize profitability
  • Evaluates performance and determines degradation
  • Validates measurements using model-based plant mass and energy balances
  • Acquires real-time measurements and archives data for easy retrieval
  • Achieves 1 percent relative accuracy
  • Suggests where to set controllable parameters to maximize profitability
  • Reduces degradation with performance monitoring plan
  • Identifies sensors that are inaccurate
  • Retrieves and shows results fast
Online Heat Balance Module

The heat balance module tunes a mass and energy balance model of the plant to match measured data as closely as possible. Discrepancies between the model and the measured data indicate errors in the data.

Performance Module

The performance module uses GateCycle equipment models to predict the expected performance of major equipment. The difference between expected and current performance is degradation. The performance module tracks degradation over time so you can identify the performance problems that have the greatest effect on changes in plant power and heat rate.

Optimization Module

Our Optimizer™ module tells you the most profitable way to run your plant given current prices, load levels and equipment degradation. This module maximizes the profitability, rather than the efficiency, of your plant by combining plant heat balances with a plant financial model.

Turnkey Installation and Service

We install a completely configured EfficiencyMap system on a computer with a connection to your plant DCS and perform acceptance tests to prove its accuracy.

Spotlights

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Optimization and Diagnostic Software
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Ordering Information

Call: (775) 782-3611 (ask for EfficiencyMap)

Technical Support

Call: (800) 488-1915 (option 1) or (775) 215-1818