Performance & Efficiency Assessments

Services to help you evaluate how your operating performance has changed since the plant / boiler was commissioning, or to help you check the potential performance impact of planned modifications before they are implemented.

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Performance & Efficiency Assessments

Today’s combined cycle power plants can achieve near 60% efficiency when new and operating at the design load-case, but operating off-design can severely reduce efficiency and hence the heat-rate. The challenge is two fold:

  1. How can you identify where the lost Watts are going?
  2. When found, what is the best way to gain them back?

Typically, performance losses are associated with age-related degradation (for example fouling),off-design operation, or modifications that lead to changes in process conditions (for example, a GT upgrade that affects downstream HRSG performance).

Tetra Engineering has the experience and tools for identifying the origin of performance losses and how they might be recovered in considering the feasibility and cost-effectiveness.

Performance & Efficiency Assessments
Performance & Efficiency Assessments
Performance & Efficiency Assessments

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Performance & Efficiency Assessments

Performance & Efficiency Assessments

Services to help you evaluate how your operating performance has changed since the plant / boiler was commissioning, or to help you check the potential performance impact of planned modifications before they are implemented.

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