ILD has the necessary expertise to identify, diagnose, and correct many potentially harmful plant operating conditions for all types of BOP equipment. Analysis examples include:

Feedwater Heater Out-of-Service

Removing a heater from service impacts other equipment, including the turbine, system pumps, as well as the remaining service heaters, in ways that may have unintended adverse consequences. For this reason, ILD has developed a simplified method to determine the impact on other plant equipment and, in turn, determine the reduced operating thermal power level required to avoid equipment damage.

Heat Exchanger Tube Vibration Analysis

ILD is one of the few companies that can perform the complex Connors Fluid-elastic analysis for heat exchanger bundles to determine if your equipment is susceptible to flow induced vibration. ILD has incorporated industry standard analytical techniques in standard calculation methods to simplify this analysis.

On-line Condenser/Cooling Tower Model

The ILD Condenser and Cooling Tower Model is tailored to your plant’s specific condenser configuration. Cooling tower performance curves are incorporated into the model to help estimate the lost generation from degrading cooling tower performance. Additionally, the model can be used to predict the MW effect of varying parameters such as circulating water flow, tube plugging, and inlet water temperature.

Steam Jet Air Ejector Performance Assessment and Improvement

Degraded Steam Jet Air Ejector (SJAE) performance can cause undue loss of power generation. It is therefore important to quickly analyze the system and take action to correct any issues. ILD has experience and analytical tools necessary to trouble-shoot the SJAE system from the condensers to the hydrogen recombiners.