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Dynegy Inc.'s Baldwin Energy Complex in Baldwin, IL.
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Site: Dynegy Midwest Generation’s Baldwin Energy Complex
Location: Baldwin, Illinois
Specs: Two 600-MWe cyclone-fired units (1&2) and one 600-MWe tangentially fired unit. Each of Baldwin’s units is controlled with a Westinghouse Ovation DCS. The station is equipped with OSI’s PI data historian.
Site Goal(s): To leverage advanced information technologies to enhance its economic and competitive position while reducing NOx and GHG emissions. Challenges include the difficult to manage cyclone unit, the management of additional instrumentation and control systems that had recently been added, such as SCR, and the challenges of coordinating the actions of the three units toward plant emissions and economic goals.
Project Overview: NeuCo is conducting the CCPI project in conjunction with Dynegy, Inc. at Baldwin Energy Complex. Over the course of this 4-year CCPI project, NeuCo will install and refine five real-time, closed-loop physical and business process Optimizers (CombustionOpt, SootOpt, SCR-Opt, PerformanceOpt and MaintenanceOpt) and UnitAdivsor and PlantAdvisor that will address combustion, sootblowing, SCR operations, overall unit thermal performance and plant-wide economic optimization. When completed, this installation will represent the first time multiple optimization software modules of this breadth and depth have been integrated into a digital process network in coal-fired power plants.
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