OpFlex Start Agility
Explore how OpFlex Start Agility solutions can improve your simple and combined-cycle starts.
Improved startup
OpFlex Start Agility benefits
Simple cycle start-up benefits
- Reduce start-up duration to achieve 100% load in as little as 10 minutes
- Reduce fuel costs up to 70%
- Lower start-up emissions up to 50%
Combined-cycle start-up benefits
- Reduce combined-cycle start time up to 50%
- Reduce start-up variation and fuel consumption up to 35%
- Lower start-up emissions up to 50%
- Reduce risk of failed starts and asset wear and tear
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Steam Turbine Agility
Automated start-up control, revised permissives, and rotor stress management using Model-Based Control to enable fast, repeatable steam turbine start times.
Attemperator Control
Model-based control of attemperation flow to better regulate steam temperature during start-up and transients, enabling more stable operation, fewer trips, and improved efficiency.
AutoBlend
Automation of the HRSG blending process to better manage steam temperature and flow when bringing additional gas turbines online in combined cycle plants. This enables more stable operation, fewer trips, and more energy production for the lead gas turbine.
HRSG Boiler Response
Improved setpoint management and tuning of HRSG drum level control to enable more stable operation during starts and transients, and fewer trips.
SCR Control
Model-based control of Selective Catalytic Reduction (SCR) system ammonia flow to enable enhanced operation during start-up and transients, resulting in less ammonia slip and lower overall NOx emissions.
Steam Turbine Fast Cooldown
Automated fast cooldown process using temperature matching logic in reverse, to safely reduce ST cooldown times by 50% or more, enabling critical path maintenance activities to begin 24 to 36 hours sooner.
Start-up NOx
Advanced combustion control to enable low visible emissions above full speed no load and reduced cumulative start-up NOx emissions.
