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NCMS - NOx Compliance Management System. Presented by: Bill Soldat and Judah Moseson. PI Users Group meeting San Francisco, CA April, 2000.
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NCMS - NOx Compliance Management System Presented by: Bill Soldat and Judah Moseson PI Users Group meeting San Francisco, CA April, 2000
TXU is one of the largest investor-owned energy services companies in the world with assets over $40 billion. The company is a multinational leader in electric and natural gas services, merchant trading, energy marketing, telecommunications and other energy-related services. TXU delivers energy to more than nine million customers primarily in Texas, the United Kingdom and continental Europe, and Australia.
Senate Bill 7 Impacts to Generation • 50% reduction in NOx, 25% reduction in SO2 - for existing “grandfathered” electric generating facilities. • Additionally, because of the proposed State Implementation Plan under the Federal Clean Air Act, TXU Electric plans to achieve an 88% reduction in NOx production from 1997 levels in the Dallas-Fort Worth non-attainment area.
The Need:A System for Real Time NOx and SO2 Monitoring, Tracking, Alarming, Reporting and Optimization for all TXU Generating Units at the Unit Level, Area/Region Level, and TXU System Level
NCMS - NOx Compliance Management SystemScope • Control System Modifications for Data Access • Plant Historian • Accurate Heat Input • Additional Instrumentation • Advanced Emissions Controls
NCMS - NOx Compliance Management SystemInterface Requirements • Foxboro IA • Honeywell TDC3000 • Bailey Infi90/Net90 • Allen Bradley PLC • Modbus - Smart Instrumentation
Evaluated several historian choices -Trial competition between PI and another package Winner - - PI!
PI System Exact duplicate machines. Dell 4300 servers. 16 servers at plant sites, 1 corporate data collector, 1 training/development server.
Summer 1999 - Evaluation • Trial complete 7/99 • Project funding requested 8/99 • Hardware/Software ordered 9/99 • 18 Servers installed collecting from CEM PLCs and 14 control systems by 10/31/99
OPPORTUNITIES • Very Fast Track Project • Internal Resources • PI Net Manager • IT
NCMS - NOx Compliance Management System- Customers- Training- Website- User Group
INTERNAL PI CUSTOMERS- 18 Locations - Power Plants and Corporate Offices- 250 Users - Control Room Operators - Shift Supervisors - I & C Technicians - Engineers - Superintendents - Management
INTERNAL PI TRAININGOSI Instructors- Two System Management Classes (4 days each) - Total of 32 students- Four Client Applicaton Classes (1 day each)- Total of 64 studentsTXU Instructors- Four Client Application Classes (1 day each)- Total of 56 students so far
TXU - PI User Group- Quarterly Meetings- 60 Users- User Presentations/ Applications- OSI Presentation- Corporate Presentations- Project Updates and Status- New Ideas- Questions and Answers