Older / Existing Control System

Safety
1. May no longer comply with current machinery safety
standards.
2. May no longer able to safely control the turbine
within the original design limits set by the OEM
3. Risks to personnel and assets
4. Reduced life of the turbine components

Reliability
1. Unplanned turbine shutdowns and trips
2. Costly in terms of manpower and possible loss of
capability
3. Deterioration of turbine resulting in failure
4. Long standing reliability problems with
electromechanical components
5. Unacceptably high failure rates

Efficiency
1. Operate the gas turbine turbines below maximum
efficiency
2. Use of larger safety margins
3. Slower load and transient response times

Obsolescence
1. Limited in their scope for expansion
2. Hard to come by with limited availability
3. Expensive

Usability
1. Closed systems
2. Unexpandable
3. Inflexible
4. Lack of communications support
 Replacement control system

1. Adoption of latest machinery safety standards.

2. Decreased risks to personnel and assets
3. Life extension

1. Fewer unplanned shutdowns

2. Better diagnostics
3. Improved reliability
4. Ability to implement higher availability architectures (1oo2)
5. Solid state equipment
6. Lower failure rates

1. Operate the turbine more efficiently

2. Reliable and precise control
3. Improved load and transient response
4. Improved automation of turbine and driven load
5. Improved monitoring, trending, event logs and SOE
recording
6. Increased operating flexibility
7. Enhanced alarm and trip detail
8. Faster, more accurate access to operating performance and
parameter

1. Flexible hardware allows future expansion

2. Readily available hardware
3. Lower cost hardware
4. Common spares holding with other systems

1. Scalable
2. Expandable
3. Flexible
4. Support for sophisticated communications
5. Data acquisition
6. Remote access
7. Diagnostics