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OMU Elmer Smith Station
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Site: Owensboro Municipal Utilities, Elmer Smith Station, Units 1 and 2
Location: Owensboro, KY
Specs: Owensboro Municipal Utilities is the largest municipal electric/water system in Kentucky with more than 26,000 electric and 24,000 water customers. OMU's Elmer Smith plant is a coal-burning facility consisting of two units with a combined capacity of 425 MW. Unit 1 is a 151 MW B&W cyclone commissioned in 1964. It runs primarily on AGC with a maximum ramp rate of 3 MW/min. In the Fall of 2004 upgrades were made as part of a NOx project which included replacing all three cyclones, refractory and cladding of lower furnace wall, new air heaters and cyclone igniters. Static OFA dampers were added but not in use. Unit 2 is a 265 MW tangentially fired unit, capable of sustaining a load of 290 MW. Both units are controlled with a MAX DNA DCS's, have Black and Veatch Online Performance Monitoring (OPM) systems and are equipped with 8000 point OSI PI systems.
Site Goal(s): The ultimate goal is to leverage IT to assist management, operations and maintenance in making more prudent decisions that can lead to greater profits.
Project Overview: OMU contracted with NeuCo for an integrated optimization system that would enable OMU to perform comprehensive, real-time cost and revenue analyses and determine opportunities for improving profitability. The integrated system also had to optimize key physical plant processes to reduce emissions, improve efficiency and capacity, across both units, including the challenging cyclone unit. The NeuCo solutions selected by OMU included a combined application of CombustionOpt, SootOpt, SNCR-Opt, PerformanceOpt, MaintenanceOpt and ProfitOpt along with the PlantAdvisor infrastructure.
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