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Industries
Industrial Defender's RTAP has a stellar track record in addressing power industry challenges. For example, it has enabled increased flexibility and responsiveness in over 30 generating units and 14,500 MW of thermal power generation in the UK. RTAP allows these generation plants to perform in a fully deregulated UK marketplace by providing a supervisory platform with powerful integration features, flexibility and scalability to extend the life cycle of existing legacy control systems while increasing the responsiveness of the facility itself.
RTAP is also used in other power industry applications such as transmission and distribution network management and in providing training and simulation for 17 nuclear power stations in Europe.
The Challenge
Today's power marketplace places increasing demands on monitoring and control of generation assets. In a deregulated market power generators must now be more flexible and responsive to performance based rate contracts, rather than producing to predictable base loading. Power, oil & gas and even telecommunications companies are merging to become convergent energy and utility companies, increasing the diversity of assets and systems. On top of these challenges power companies will soon be faced with compliance to various security regulations emerging worldwide, such as the NERC CIP standard in the United States, NISCC in the United Kingdom and ENISA in the European Union..
The Solution
The responsiveness and flexibility provided by RTAP make it an ideal supervisory platform to meet the increasing demands of the power Industry. Power generators cannot afford increased downtime and are under severe capital spending constraints, requiring them to extend the life of existing systems. RTAP is proven in its ability to integrate and refurbish existing systems. With a wide-open development environment and powerful scalability, RTAP provides the required responsiveness without having to replace existing control systems. Its unmatched openness to integrate systems that are based on varying technologies and operating systems, eases the integration effort in a convergent company and preserves existing assets within a deregulated environment. With Industrial Defender's suite of security products you also have the ability to protect your SCADA system with technology that is specifically designed for the unique security challenges of the automation environment.
RTAP at Work
RTAP has a stellar track record in addressing power industry challenges. For example, it has enabled increased flexibility and responsiveness in over 30 generating units and 14,500 MW of thermal power generation in the UK. RTAP is also used in transmission and distribution network management and in providing training and simulation for 17 nuclear power stations in Europe. Within thermal generating units RTAP acts as:
- A supervisory layer to integrate diverse control systems across all sites
- A means to monitor and control operating parameters such as:
- Condensation status
- Boiler and turbine temperature and pressure readings
- Pulverizing mill output
- Burner temperatures
- Pump speeds
- Environmental emissions
- Electronic dispatch
- A real-time database for all plant data
- A hub to provide real time services to plant control applications
- A uniform operator interface across plants
- A managed engineering interface
Customers
American Electric Power
British Energy
Drax Power
EDF
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International Power
Ontario Power Generation
RWE Power International
Scottish Power
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