Biomass Boiler Control Solutions

Need to reduce operating costs and improve production efficiency while meeting compliance for emissions regulations and reducing carbon footprint?

GE Intelligent Platforms offers powerful and proven Boiler Control Solutions for biomass power plants based on our Proficy Process Systems advanced DCS and value-added services to address challenges that are critical to biomass boiler control such as variations in fuel quality, fuel handling, furnace temperatures, and combustion control.

Advanced, “green” control capabilities

Delivering precision, consistency, and responsiveness, GE’s proven boiler control solutions have enabled biomass captive power plants around the world to increase operational visibility and control, optimize processes, and reduce fuel costs and emissions—improving both environment and operating performance— without compromising safety and protection.

Key Benefits:

Reduce Implementation and Maintenance Costs - With pre-configured screens and control logic built into the solution, you can easily tailor it to your specific boiler, reducing implementation times by 50-80%, compared to traditional approaches.
Optimize Combustion/Emissions Compliance – Advanced control algorithms handle variations in the fuel source and its delivery; combustion control with advanced CO/O2 trim maximizes output while reducing emissions.
Achieve Faster Return on Investment – With our automatic blow down control, you can reduce chemical usage for water treatment in the boiler, decrease BTU losses, and realize a 3-4 month payback.
Increase Safety – Advanced Feed Water Control provides pressure compensation, reduces maintenance, and prevents meltdowns, and our TUV Certified SIL2 Burner Management System can securely protect your assets.
Improve System Reliability – Minimizing system interruptions and production risks, the solution has the option for synchronized, hot-standby redundancy to provide high availability.

Unique from other biomass boiler solutions, GE’s system monitors the status and demand on the feeders and automatically adjusts to account for grate cleaning, feeders out of service, and balances on return to service—resulting in better control of pressure, drum level and combustion. It can also import two-dimensional tables for steam and water properties, allowing extremely accurate flow compensations and advanced drum level algorithms.

Committed to your needs

As an industry leader in boiler control solutions for biomass captive power plants, GE leverages more than 30 years of experience into our solutions, and we are committed to helping you improve boiler plant efficiency, maximize output, and reduce your operating expenses for a sustainable competitive advantage.