POWER-GEN Asia 2018

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The Value of “Digital” Solutions in Today’s Challenging Power Generating Market: Remote Monitoring & Diagnostics for Enhance Operational Flexibility and Reliability (Room Garuda 7B, 1st Floor)

In Asia’s fast changing and dynamic power generation industry, corporate and regulatory constraints such as environmental health & safety, emission reductions and plant aging are always questions that need to be balanced with operational needs such as efficiency, flexibility, reliability and optimum life cycle maintenance costs. Within this context, the "diagnostic" new approach is realized by means of advanced analysis tools such as advanced pattern recognition or APR and fast networks and power plant virtual twins, tools that are in charge to provide a large amount of information through the capture and transformation of data captured by power plant “smart” sensors. In recent decades, with the adoption of advanced technologies in model based controls and communication systems, there have been made available an increasing amount of data from systems than need to be triaged, organized, specifically processed and safely transported to the operator to exploit the maximum diagnostic advantage, resulting in more informed operational decisions. The remote monitoring and diagnostic network is evolving continuously, with the aim of implementing advanced tools that meet the requirements of the engineering teams involved in the activities of daily service and operation support. In this publication, the latest developments in remote monitoring and engineering assistance network for a global fleet of power generation assets across every major OEM technology platform are described and shown how they have been implemented. Starting from the acquisition systems with vibration and combustion integrated processing, to the database generation and sharing, until the introduction of predictive analysis systems, the value proposition for operators will be shared and discussed