Power plant operational support

During operation of power plants, the owner may require assistance from an independent, experienced technical or business consultant like KEMA. These operational issues can range from fuel selection, boiler behavior, boiler integrity, condition monitoring, failure diagnosis, to flue gas cleaning performance, by-product quality or legislation items.

KEMA can supply appropriate services over the entire spectrum of disciplines using its highly experienced and professional consultants.

 

The main topics of power plant operational support are:

 

Fuel management

If you want to retrofit your power plant to co-firing of new (biomass) fuels, KEMA assists in the process of fuel selection depending on technical, environmental and legislative boundary conditions.

 

Boiler performance

KEMA delivers hands-on experience on a full range of boiler performance priocesses such as combustion optimization, load improvement or integration of (new) auxiliary equipment.

 

Boiler integrity and condition monitoring

Phenomena such as corrosion, erosion, slagging and fouling are a serious threat for the integrity and life time of a boiler. Measurement and recording of these phenomena with special probes, non-destructive testing or microscopic techniques as well as specialized prediction models are all elements of KEMA service.

 

Flue gas cleaning, emissions and by-product quality

Regarding flue gas cleaning technologies KEMA delivers assistance for different technologies. Specialized expertise is available with respect to the effect of different fuels and boiler operation on flue gas cleaning equipment, on SCR catalyst deactivation and life time, quality (technical and occupational health and safety) and salability of by-products.

 

Integration

KEMA assists in evaluation of the optimal integration of new pieces of equipment with existing power plants, for example retrofitting of CCS, co-firing options or flue gas equipment. Several integration options for gas, air or steam can be evaluated using dedicated KEMA tools such as SPENCE® to find optimum solutions to technical requirements and economic benefits.