| In a competitive energy market producing the maximum amount of electric power at a minimum operating cost, within emissions limits, is forcing power generators to look to utility and equipment manufacturers to provide increasingly efficient systems. To help meet these challenges the power industry is looking to technological advances in computer aided engineering tools such as Flowmaster, to simulate systems performance and optimisation of both new and existing power plants. Sometimes it is a simple case of understanding how a cooling water system will behave if a main supply valve is slammed shut. Other times you may need to design the whole system and understand how it will affect others that it interacts with. Flowmaster makes this practical to do.
By simulating the system in the virtual environment, different system configurations can be compared and more accurate component selection / sizing to meet your design goals and reduce your projects capital expenditure. By doing this you will save yourself and your customer money. Commissioning of power plant systems is expensive. The cost and risk at this stage can be significantly increased if your system fails to meet its performance requirements and delays the scheduled go-live date of the plant. Likewise over design leads to excessive capital expenditure so results of fluid systems simulation from the upfront design process can play a major role in providing design assurance to your customers and partners and ensure you can deliver to schedule. In other words, with Flowmaster, you can quantify your system performance and quickly assess its feasibility and provide design assurance with lower risk. Furthermore your Flowmaster models that you used in the design stages can be used to guide your testing and commissioning of your systems and in later years for:
- Assessing the feasibility and implications of upgrading/ retrofitting
- Scheduling major maintenance programs
- Re-calculation of your systems optimised operating conditions due to component wear.
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