Industry Expertise for Improving Reliability for Production and Automation Assets across Power Sites
Power generation is not what it used to be. Aging infrastructure and growing market demands due to population shifts, data centers, and electric vehicles are making the grid even more vital than ever.
Global pressures to deliver an increasing percentage of power from renewable sources has ironically placed even greater pressure on conventional fossil-fueled sources. Suddenly, assets that were designed and used for base load are being used for peaking and intermittent duties instead, coming up and down several times a day or week rather than in intervals measured in months or years. As a result, assets that were never originally intended to endure the cyclic stresses of multiple starts and stops suddenly find themselves having to cope.
Opportunity Areas for Power Generation
Turbines
Turbines are core components in power plants, converting fuel energy into mechanical energy for generators. Failure can lead to significant production halts, with daily costs ranging from $50,000 to $250,000. Major repairs can exceed $10 million, and lost production during peak demand can damage utility providers and consumers.
Common Issues: Sleeve bearing failures (high loads and speeds), gearbox failure (resulting from improper meshing or contamination), rotor Imbalance (uneven weight distribution in the rotor due to blade erosion, deposits, or improper installation, excessive vibrations can lead to premature bearing and blade damage).
AMS 6500 ATG
The AMS 6500 ATG protection system is a modern protection-plus-prediction system designed to easily replace obsolete protection systems, allowing users to cost-effectively initiate online prediction monitoring of critical rotating machinery assets like steam turbine generators, gas turbines, boiler feed pumps, offshore compressors, pipeline turbo compressors, chemical industry compressors, turbo exhausters, blowers, boosters and more
Ovation™ Machinery Health™ Monitor
Integrated solution for simplifying and improving prediction and protection of critical rotating assets.
AMS Machine Works
You collect data from many rotating machines—from balance-of-plant assets like pumps, motors, gear boxes,and fans,to higher consequence assets like turbines, generatorsand compressors—but having a single location where the data comes together to identify bad actors quickly would be more efficient.
Reliability Solutions for Power Generation
Improve reliability for production and automation assets across power generation industries with Emerson's AMS Reliability portfolio.
Power Industry Case Studies
CASE STUDY | AMS WIRELESS VIBRATION MONITOR – ENTERPRISE DEPLOYMENT
"We are always striving to reduce downtime and to move away from time-based activities and toward condition-based maintenance" - Senior Manager, Monitoring and Diagnostics Explore why a U.S. power utility company is deploying a network of approximately 5,000 units of Emerson’s AMS Wireless Vibration Monitor in all its fossil sites by the end of 2022.
Data Embedded into Ovation Manages Machinery Health
Ovation user? Start Your Condition Monitoring with a Snap.
Emerson’s leading Reliability Solutions portfolio integrates with your existing operations and software, like Emerson’s Ovation™ integrated control and safety platform and AMS Device Manager to help you orchestrate next-level productivity and decision-making across your enterprise.
Prediction & Protection for Your Turbines
While the shutdown of many kinds of assets in your facility can halt plant output, few are as complex or as expensive as the turbine.
For this critical asset, your personnel require a complete system – predictive intelligence plus protection capabilities that integrates with the distributed control system – to maximize reliability.
Maintain Reliability Across the Balance of Plant (BOP) Assets
There are many assets in your facility that can impact capacity – boiler feed pumps, compressors, and motors to name a few.
These BOP assets are essential to meeting your business goals and require the same field-proven monitoring technologies as your turbines. Emerson’s wireless and route-based solutions are the perfect balance of quality monitoring with cost-effective implementation for these applications.
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