Do you know the condition of your unit?
Is your unit operating at its best achievable heat rate?
Do you know where your heat rate losses are?
Are equipment inefficiencies reducing MW output?
Performance Testing by PE LLC is the best way to get quick, accurate answers to these questions.
Performance Testing Benefits
Performance Testing identifies capacity and efficiency losses. It also allows verification of critical plant instrumentation via direct comparison to NIST-traceable instruments. The use of our own precision test instrumentation gives accurate assessment of plant equipment condition. Pre and Post overhaul testing is must have information for planning and evaluating overhaul quality. Unit testing is an invaluable troubleshooting tool and provides a benchmark for performance trending.
Applications:
- Turbine efficiency (steam, gas, auxiliary, hydro, geothermal, nuclear) & max capacity @ VWO
- Internal leakage, i.e. N2 packing
- Boiler, APH, HRSG, fan performance
- Heat range over the load range
- Dispatch and I/O curve development
- Condenser and cooling tower performance
- Pump performance, including circ water pumps
- Feedwater heater and heat exchanger tests
