E.ON uses the latest measurement and communications technologies to provide comprehensive condition monitoring expertise to power plants across the world.
Gary Hewitt of E.ON’s Power Technology and Duncan Affleck of Beran Instruments describes how E.ON is using today’s measurement and communications technologies to provide comprehensive condition monitoring expertise to power plants across the world.
Among the key services offered by E.ON’s Power Technology is real-time condition monitoring for power plants, aimed at optimising maintenance costs and minimising unscheduled outages and their duration. Recently, the company demonstrated its commitment to this service by making a major investment in a dedicated condition monitoring suite at their Ratcliffe-on-Soar facility.
Originally intended to provide expertise for E.ON’s own stations, continuous plant condition monitoring is now available on a confidential basis to third parties.
Using sophisticated diagnostic techniques on real-time data from the plant in question, experts at E.ON’s Power Technology can advise operators on the best strategy for dealing with any developing problem, or simply keep a vigilant eye on potential problems on ‘difficult’ machines. For plant operators, this means that they have instant access to the best available advice for ensuring the continued health of their plant.
Over fifty plants in the UK and overseas - including installations in Hungary and the USA - are already making good use of the service. The plant-covered embraces a wide range of technologies, including traditional coal-fired, combined cycle gas turbine (CCGT), and combined heat and power (CHP).
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