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Power Production Optimization

I & C Energo is a foremost supplier of services and comprehensive solutions for the control, diagnostics and optimization of nuclear and conventional power plants and heating plants. These services and solutions, often resulting in the delivery of a software (SW) product, are characterised by strong orientation on specific needs of our customers and sophisticated long-term support. As far as our customers’ needs are concerned, our products ensure economic benefit and closely related high quality, efficiency and safety of production, including the environmental impacts.

The scope of our supplies covers all project stages, i.e. a current state analysis (“as is”), a customer’s requirements analysis (“should be”), solution proposal, its implementation, or possibly system integration, commissioning and follow-up support or service. Integral part of software projects is also the development of customised application SW, supply of standard (“box”) SW solutions and software and hardware (HW) integration. Our extensive and long-term experience in the sphere of information technologies allows us to perform comprehensive deliveries of extensive information systems, both of management and technological nature.

Besides software projects, another key product of ours are activities, where we utilise our ability to combine mathematical and physical thinking with the knowledge of technology of power generating facilities. We apply our experience in a range of spheres, such as the evaluation of operating economy, modelling and simulation of technological processes and equipment, verification and validation of control algorithms and the analysis of reliability and safety. Thus, we rank among foremost companies that can not only provide consulting services in the spheres mentioned, but also have high potential of implementing extensive and comprehensive engineering solutions.

Power Production Optimization comprises the following major parts:

Monitoring, evaluation and optimization of power plants and heating plants operation

Monitoring, diagnostics and optimization of the performance of power plants and heating plants
(SW solution PowerOpti)
- Increase in the accuracy and reliability of measurements
- Obtaining a real picture of the actual condition of the equipment and the technological process
- Timely detection of equipment faults and faults in the technological process
- Diagnostics of the equipment and degradation detection
- Optimization of a technological process
Advanced processing of measured data – validation of technological data (part of PowerOpti)
Monitoring and evaluation of emissions of conventional power plants (SW solution Emon, Emisan)
Monitoring and diagnostic system of transformers (SW solution Tramon)
Solution of the power system support services and their certification as per Transmission Grid Code

Management, evaluation and optimization of power plants and heating plants maintenance

Management of maintenance works and their evaluation
(provision of comprehensive services for standard Ventyx company’s SW product Asset Suite)
Management of shutdowns of large technological units
(SW solution Komunikační Systém Koordinace (communication system COORDINATION) – KSK)
Monitoring the equipment condition (diagnostics), optimization of its maintenance and management of its lifetime, i.e. Long Time Operation (SW solution TechMon, LTO Suite)
Evaluation of equipment reliability – reliability information systems (SW solution SIS, SSS)
Registers (databases) of equipment, incl. the application of a single system of identification and equipment marking, so-called KKS code

Management of projects of refurbishment and construction of power generating facilities

Supplies of SW support for the preparation, implementation and management of large capital investment projects

Cabling Management System

Management of the entire life cycle of cabling – design, implementation and management
(SW solution SSK = cabling management system)

Documentation management systems

Management of the entire life cycle of operational documentation, incl. the support of the document author’s work (SW solution ISSPD)

Extensive technological information systems

The development of SW for communications, data collection and special calculations
System integration on the platform of standard SW products Wonderware and PVSS
(communication, archiving, visualisation)
Technological data warehouses
Data network projects
HW and SW integration

Engineering simulators of technological processes

Modelling of technological and management systems (managed and managing systems)
Creating models in Modex environment, including communication links of the simulator to the environment
Implementation of customised simulators of required characteristics,
e.g. a generating unit of nuclear power-plant Dukovany and nuclear power plant Temelín

Control systems

Control system SW modification, including security systems and systems relating to safety
Control and security systems SW independent verification and validation
Verification of control system algorithms design and their verification and validation using mathematical models
Determination of functional safety by means of a risk analysis