Power Plant in Southern Florida Avoids Costly Shutdown With Emerson’s Diagnostic Services
Power Plant in Southern Florida Avoids Costly Shutdown With Emerson’s Diagnostic Services
2 PagesFor more information: www.assetweb.com/ivs POWER Power Plant in Southern Florida Avoids Costly Shutdown With Emerson’s Diagnostic Services RESULTS •Avoided eight hours of downtime •Entire service visit took 90 minutes, greatly reducing maintenance costs APPLICATION Integrated gasification combined-cycle (IGCC) power plant CUSTOMER Power plant — Southern Florida CHALLENGE When engineers at a power plant in southern Florida discovered that the adsorbers in their state-of-the-art IGCC power plant would not pressurize, they immediately suspected a leaking valve. The plant’s air separator tower operates with four adsorbers, and each adsorber unit has four 24-inch valves and several smaller ones. Leakage in any one of these valves would degrade the air separator’s efficiency. If the leakage requ
