Power Generation and Utilities
Break Away to Safe, Responsive and Reliable Unit Operation
Whether you operate a central utility station or an industrial powerhouse, reliable control systems are vital to your success. Unfortunately, schedule and budget constraints often force plant engineers to make maintenance decisions that create more issues than they resolve. But progressive plants and utilities take a different approach. They seek out solutions to enhance reliability, improve controllability and maximize production, augmenting their resources with the expertise and manpower needed to accomplish these goals.
MAVERICK Technologies can help you achieve your objectives and break away to safe, responsive and reliable power generation. We work with you to implement solutions that will help you maximize productivity while ensuring quality and regulatory compliance. With extensive experience, we are able to provide a complete business perspective — making improvements from the plant floor to the boardroom in order to optimize performance at every level.
Solutions for Improved Profitability
Partner with MAVERICK to benefit from our unique offering, including:
- A specially assembled team of trained, certified professionals with the skills needed to deliver power generation solutions in the country where you work.
- Deep expertise and knowledge of best practices for the power generation industry.
- Knowledge of best practices gained from working in related industries, such as oil and gas and manufacturing.
- Track record of adhering to budgets and timelines.
- The OpCon Advantage™, combining the right people, process and technology to ensure project success.
- Capabilities in enterprise-wide services, from automation to business-level IT solutions.
- Platform-independent, scalable solutions that utilize your existing infrastructure.
- Proven Project Complete™ methodology for meeting critical objectives with consistency and repeatability.
Service Offerings — Covering All Levels of Your Organization
Enterprise Services
MAVERICK's business solutions group can help you implement and integrate strong enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems. With a refined, accurate vision of the future, you can make smarter management decisions that allow you to achieve greater success.
Business Development — Vision, Strategy and Governance | Comprehensive Business Systems Integration | Production Planning and Optimization | Cultural Change Management
Technical Planning — Process Control I / F to IT Applications | Technology Assessment, Valuation, Selection and Deployment | Custom Software Development
Financial Strategy — Energy Production Reporting / Analysis | Real-Time Performance Measures — Unit Heat Rate / Efficiency & other KPI's
Power Production Management — Generation Scheduling | Unit Outage Planning | Steam Header Pressure Control and Condensate Return Management
Consulting |
Enterprise Resource Planning Systems (ERP) |
Customer Relationship Management (CRM) |
Microsoft Office SharePoint Services |
Datacenter Technology & Operations |
Manufacturing IT
Utilities Optimization |
Supply Chain Optimization
Business Intelligence
MAVERICK will work with you to implement metrics, enterprise application integration (EAI) and manufacturing execution systems (MES) to maximize the value of your production data to achieve high-level goals.
Operations Improvement — Operations Management | Purchased Fuel Contracts | Load Demand Response Planning (Economic Dispatch) | Unit Efficiency Optimization | Unit Utilization | PID Loop Tuning and Optimization | Process Control Strategy Optimization | Steam Header Pressure Control and Management of Condensate Return | Alarm Management
Enterprise Asset Management (EAM) — Asset Availability / Reliability Studies | Outage Planning and Managing Downtime | Plant Asset Management (PAM) | Repair or Replace Decisions | System Condition Monitoring | Equipment Condition Tracking (instruments, pumps, valves, motors, etc.) | Loops / System Audits and Analysis
Application of Data Historians — Real-Time Loop Tuning | Historical Data Collection and Analysis | Unit Efficiency / Heat Rate and Steam / Electric Power Production Level Monitoring and Control
Data Analytics & Management |
Manufacturing Execution Systems (MES) |
Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) |
Asset Management |
Enterprise Manufacturing Intelligence (EMI)
Industrial Automation
Through automation, process and safety control services, we develop and implement flexible, scalable planning and scheduling solutions that can help you handle frequent process changeovers and marketplace shifts with efficiency and accuracy.
Fuels — Natural Gas | Hydrogen | No. 2 and No. 6 Oil Firing | Pulverized Coal | Stoker Coal | Cyclone Coal | Bark / Hog Fuel | Process Waste Gas / Off-Gas | Styrene | Biogas
Coal Handling — Control of Conveyors Trippers | Feeders | Weigh Feeders | Ball Mills | Pulverizers | Pulverizer Load Staging | Wet Scrubbers | SCRs | Enhanced SCR Control | Precipitators | Baghouses | Fly Ash Handling | Sootblowing
Liquid Fuel Handling & Storage — Fuel Tank Level Monitoring & Control | Wireless Tank Farm Monitoring | Tank Farm SCADA System
Power Contract Structure & Negotiations — Demand Charges | Energy Usage Charges | Peak Time | Peak Load Shedding
Combustion Control — DCS, PLC and HMI Programming | Fuel Air Weighted Stoichiometric (FAWS) Combustion | O2 Trim | Load Control Feedforward | Firing Rate Feedback | Fuel & Air Pre-Positioning for Optimum Emissions | Boiler Feed Pump & Feedwater Control | Drum Level Control
Burner Management Systems — Fully NFPA-Compliant | DCS, PLC and HMI Programming | Multi-Burner Boiler & Multi-Burner Fired Heater Systems | All Fuel & Pilot Combinations | FM Reviews | Logic Drawings | Self-Verifying I/O | SOE / First Out Alarm Capture | Fuel Skids
Fired Boiler & Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) — Controls Integration | Multi-Element DA Level | LP / HP Heaters | Multi-Element Drum Level | Burner Tilt Steam Temp | Continuous Blowdown | Deaerator Level Control | Weigh Feeder Rate Control | Excess Oxygen Control | FD & ID Fan Control | Multi-Fuel Operations | Furnace Pressure Control
Turbine Controls — Complete Control Systems for Steam & Combustion Turbines | TCS and HMI Programming | Turbine and BOP Systems Integration | Normal Control Modes | Load Allocation | BOP Auxiliary Systems | Turbine Extraction and Exhaust Flow
Auxiliary Systems — Continuous Emissions Monitoring Systems (CEMS) | Water Treatment Demineralizers | Polishers | Clarifiers | RO Systems | Steam and Electric Heat Tracing | Instrument Air Supply Systems
Wind Farm / Wind Generation — Mechanical Troubleshooting | Wind Generator Control | SCADA Monitoring
Load Control — Synchronization | Automatic Generation Control (AGC) | Turbine Following | Boiler Following | Run-Backs | Load Shedding
Steam Header Management & Load Allocation — Lowest Incremental Delivered Steam Cost | Optimized Control of Multiple Header Pressure Systems | Steam Cycle Performance Constraints | Redundant Steam Supply to Critical Headers | Trip and Restart Response
Electrical Distribution SCADA — Internal Source & Ring Bus Arrangements | Feeder Breaker Control | Synchronization | Power Distribution Control & Monitoring | Station Net Megawatt & Station Service Totalizers | Utility/ Tie-Line Control | Revenue Metering Data Centralization | Protective Relaying Panels | Acceptance Testing
Generator Control & Protection — Applied Protective Relaying for Steam & Combustion Turbine-Generators | Diesel Generators | Diesel Generator Synchronization and Load Sharing | Application of Woodward DSLC & MSLC to Multi-Engine DG Systems
Industrial Automation Consulting |
Industrial Automation Integration |
Main Automation Contractor (MAC) |
Process Automation |
Advanced Automation |
3D Virtual Process Design |
Field Services |
Network & Data Communication |
Sustaining Service Program
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