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  • Powering The Future

    Discover the Power of Digital
    White Paper: Powering the Future
    Leading the Digital Transformation of the Power Industry
    By:
    Marco Annunziata, GE’s Chief Economist
    Ganesh Bell, Chief Digital Officer of GE Power
    Digital technologies are transforming the power sector. From delivering power to underserved markets to managing variations in market conditions and fuel costs, power leaders are using analytics and

  • Improve Your Mercury Compliance Testing

    US power generators and cement plants are now under pressure due to recent legislation. Many plants are now scrambling to tighten up their mercury control procedures. Luckily, ADA Carbon Solutions’ Dynamic Mercury Index test has been developed to ensure consistent quality of sorbents used in activated carbon injection.

  • MPW’s Improvements Lead to Savings for Southeastern Pulp and Paper Facility

    Problem
    A Florida pulp and paper mill faced a complicated, dangerous process to clean its power boiler during scheduled outages.
    Previous efforts to clean the boiler included manual water blasting from scaffolding, which posed a safety risk to workers below due to the potential for falling debris.
    Solution
    The Operations team at MPW Industrial Services recommended that the facility’s

  • Free eBook: 7 Ways to Achieve Operations Reliability

    Learn how power leaders are leveraging Asset Performance Management (APM) to drive less unplanned downtime, safer operations and a competitive edge.

  • Case Study: MPW’s Automation Simplifies RO Replacement Process for Indiana Energy Plant

    Case Study: MPW’s Automation Simplifies RO Replacement Process for Indiana Energy Plant

  • Case Study: MPW’s Emergency Response Pays Off for Virginia Power Station

    INDUSTRIAL WATERMPW’s emergency response pays off for Virginia Challenge:
    When a Virginia power station had an issue with its existing Reverse Osmosis [RO] process, it called on MPW to supplement its water needs during an excessively cold winter.
    The plant lost RO functionality at one of its four power-production units, which would severely damage its ability to

  • Case Study: Monitoring Health and Performance of Grid-Scale Battery Installations

    UniEnergy’s Technologies (UET) manufactures and installs large-scale energy storage solutions for utility, commercial, and microgrid applications. Their battery systems enable customers to address power needs, such as “frequency regulation” as well as “transmission generation deferral” and “peak shaving. This case study details how OSIsoft’s Connected Services enabled UET to offer capacity guarantees for their technology.

  • MPW Industrial Water Capabilties

    For over 30 years, MPW Industrial Water Service has worked to provide customized and expert solutions for our clients that chop operating costs in half. We offer professional water services that rise to the occasion during an emergency, or to provide long-term purified water needs that rank as some of the best in the industry.
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  • Special Report: Condition Monitoring – The Next Steps

     

    Today, power plants have the ability to collect more and better data about how their assets are performing in the field. But what are you doing with that data and how can it provide value to your customers?

  • Video: How Connected Services Fits the Needs of a Large Scale Energy Storage Company

    UniEnergy Technologies, a clean tech large scale energy storage company, needed data from all of their customer sites so they could continue to make improvements to their batteries and maintain those batteries at the customer sites. Find out how the utilized Connected Services to accomplish this and increased the value of their aftermarket services with

  • Webinar On-Demand: Improving Asset Management with Real-Time Condition Monitoring and CBM

    This webinar will provide you with information on how you can implement Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) based on real-time condition monitoring using the PI System.  You’ll learn about:

    Four possible methodologies
    Best practices for designing a CBM strategy
    How Williams  a large scale energy infrastructure company, implemented CBM

     
     
     

  • Video: Condition Based Maintenance Demonstration for Power Generation

    Demo: The PI System for Condition Based Maintenance
    This video demonstration using the PI System for Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) includes the, management, analysis and presentation of historic and real-time data. You’ll see it from a plant engineer’s perspective, including operational data for a specific asset, notification, an event frame report, and how the process data

  • eBook: Implementing Condition-Based Maintenance Using Real-Time Data

    This guidebook provides recommendations for integrating operational data when implementing Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) solutions. Content includes:
    –   a getting started guide to developing a successful CBM implementation
    –   CBM configuration including quantitative and qualitative based meters
    –   a PI System ecosystem overview for condition monitoring
    –  CBM solution examples
    ….and more!

  • Case Study: Fingrid Oyj’s Investment in a Real-Time Condition Monitoring System Pays Off

    With a network combining about 14,000 km of transmission lines and more than 100 substations, Fingrid Oyj, the electricity transmission operator in Finland, needed to find new ways to optimize network reliability while minimizing maintenance and investment costs.  Download this case study to find out how they accomplished this.
     

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  • How to Protect Control Assets before the Cybersecurity Egg Cracks

    The target is on the back of industrial control systems (ICS) within the power and process industries. The number of attacks, as reported by the Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT), has increased sixfold since 2010. Control systems at industrial facilities present a more attractive target to hackers as they offer a greater

  • ENR RANKS NATIONAL STEEL CITY THIRD LARGEST STRUCTURAL STEEL ERECTOR IN NORTH AMERICA

    Ranking fueled by a 66 percent revenue jump to $97.7M in 2014; NSC also moves up from #302 to #203 among the nation’s Top 600 specialty contractors.
    Plymouth, Mich., Nov. 30, 2015 – National Steel City, one of the nation’s leading steel construction and erection companies, today announced it has been ranked the third largest structural

  • Case Study: Exelon Ensures Nuclear Power Plant Safety Using Online Monitoring

    Exelon has optimized the efficiency of its operations, maintenance, and engineering staff. By automating data collection, plant engineers now focus on analyzing data rather than manually collecting data and risking radiation exposure. Download this case study to get more details then go here to learn more about Condition Based Maintenance (CBM) for Power Generation.

  • Ash Utilization: Managing Byproduct Impacts for MATS

    Our newest research paper demonstrates the possibilities for utilization of ash in concrete in post-MATS compliance scenarios. A new test is introduced to monitor ash quality, and then is applied to real-world utility ash and PAC ranges to show the impacts.

  • Condition-Based Maintenance Bolsters the Bottom Line in Power Generation

    The power generation industry is undergoing a period of rapid transformation. A growing number of operators are considering the adoption of condition-based maintenance (CBM).  This whitepaper discusses the forces that are driving demand for CBM, how CBM works and why it is an effective alternative to planned maintenance strategies.
    Find out more about CBM for Power

  • Handling Dry Sorbent Reliability

    Learn more about key processes for safely handling dry sorbents as you introduce a mercury control solution into your plant process.

  • 7 Ways Power Generation Service Providers Can Benefit from a Connected Services Approach

     

    Across the Power Generation industry, companies face a multitude of obstacles to achieving high operational efficiency. Domain experts are retiring in growing numbers and being replaced by less experience workers.  Discover the benefits of a unique approach to overcoming this and other challenges by downloading this list.
    You can find out more about OSIsoft and this

  • Infographic: Challenges and Opportunities in the Power Industry

    A recent study conducted by Zpryme shows how service providers can deliver the expertise energy companies need as they lose their asset experts—89 percent of power and oil & gas companies expect to lose experienced personnel due to retirement in the next five years, and 35 percent will see more than 25 percent of their

  • The Reliable Piping Solution for the Power Generation Industry

    In the power generation industry, there are often fewer choices when it comes to specifying the product or material being used in the plant’s processes. Selecting the correct piping solution will help increase operational efficiency while minimizing downtime and improving bottom-line performance.

  • [VIDEO] Durable CPVC Pipes for Industrial Use

    Improve your processes by using these pipes to be more efficient and environmentally friendly by providing a solution that is long term and easy to maintain.

  • [VIDEO] Industrial Services You Can Rely On

    MPW offers a variety of industrial cleaning, water purification, facility management and container management services to thousands of clients throughout North America.

  • Video: How a Gas Turbine Manufacturer Provides An Increased Level of Aftermarket Services

    Watch this brief overview to understand how a gas turbine manufacturer can provide an increased level of aftermarket services to their customer by accessing and sharing real-time data with each other using a connected services framework with the PI System.

  • Connected Services: A Real-Time Information Framework to Transform Aftermarket Services

    In today’s global and competitive marketplace, service providers differentiate their value to their customers by streamlining their cost of service, improving their recommendations and reducing time-to-solution. Growing their businesses requires that service providers maintain and update intellectual property, optimize staff and adopt appropriate cost structures to maximize market penetration.

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  • [VIDEO] Service Providers and Asset Owners: Transformation Through Connected Services

    Discover how Service Providers were able to transform their business using a commercial and technical framework that enabled them to get real-time data from their customer’s asset, reduce the amount of service calls and create partnerships built on data and trust using Connected Services.

  • Dynamic Mercury Index Test

    One of the shortfalls in mercury control research was the development of a good surrogate for mercury capture in dynamic conditions, representative of ESP in-flight capture.  Our Dynamic Mercury Index (DMI) test is our answer to this absence.
    The laboratory-based test mimics real in-duct injection mechanically, and has proven to be an excellent directional indicator for

  • Chinese Chemical Plant Optimizes Water Treatment by Replacing Double Pass RO with a Single Pass RO and Liqui-Cel® Contactor System

    Electrodeionization (EDI) is widely used in many industrial water treatment systems throughout the world. In order to maximize the operating stability and life expectancy of an EDI system they were often designed with double pass RO using caustic injection pretreatment. However, in response to recent efforts to lower the capital expenditure and operating costs of