Performance Consulting Services, Inc.

Performance Services

• Plant Health Monitoring Services

+ Equipment Condition Monitoring (eCM)

• Combustion Optimization

• Performance Testing Services

• Power Plant Performance Assessments

• Instrument Assessments

• Plant Modeling

• Engineering Consulting and Support

• EtaPRO

PERFORMANCE TESTING SERVICES

Performance Testing Services

What is your unit heat rate? Are you mysteriously losing megawatts? Where should you emphasize outage work? What was the heat rate improvement for that major outage? What is the efficiency of your high pressure turbine? How much is your turbine's N2 or dummy packing leakage?

These are all questions that are answered with performance testing. With fuel costs on the rise it more important than ever to maximize the efficiency of your plant. However, before you can improve your heat rate you need to know what your heat rate is and where your heat rate losses are located.

The bottom line for performance testing is improving the plant performance and profitability. Performance Consulting Services, Inc. (PCS) can help you quantify your plant performance and identify performance losses to improve your plant's profitability.

Performance testing can be used to improve availability, reliability and performance as well as reduce emissions. The Performance Test can:

Identify Losses
- Establish a baseline for major equipment
- Provide comparison to future tests
- Benchmark at start-up or after major upgrades
- Diagnose performance degradation
- Locate operating problems
- A problem system
- A problem component or section

Quantify Losses

Lost generation: determine availability, reliability, profitability, plus reduce unit stresses
Increased heat rate
Identify reason for increased operating costs

Prevent Future Losses

Develop predictive maintenance programs
Minimize controllable losses
Optimize unit operation

Performance Testing Capabilities - PCS can:

Design the test
Write the test procedure
Provide calibrated test instrumentation and on site installation
Plan the test
Schedule the test
Supervise the test
Oversee the test on behalf of the client (3rd party oversight)
Calculate the plant, system and component performance
Determine the uncertainty of test results
Analyze the results and make specific recommendation for improvement
Provide a written report

In addition to our experience in performance testing and analysis, we have implemented and managed vibration monitoring and analysis programs for all types of rotating equipment, developed and implemented infrared thermography programs, cycle isolation programs, and the most advanced equipment condition monitoring systems available.

PCS offers training courses to help companies develop their own performance improvement program and can help in the plant design process by specifying instrumentation so that acceptance and periodic plant tests can be run properly.

To see how PCS can help you with performance testing at your plant contact us at 970-240-4381 or e-mail Performance Consulting Services.