Boiler Solutions

Today, more than ever, the need for reducing operating costs is greater than ever.  But equally important is the need to comply with emissions regulations and reduce your carbon footprint.

GE Intelligent Platforms provides control solutions that can optimize the operation of your boiler, reducing fuel usage as well as undesirable NOx emissions. 

GE Intelligent Platforms’s Boiler Control Solution offers a truly low-cost boiler control system for the industrial boiler market. The system combines industry-leading open technology, engineering tools and control hardware which, when combined with your choice of our visualization technologies – iFIX or CIMPLICITY, creates a system that provides the functionality of a DCS at PLC prices. 

Boiler Bookshelf 

The Boiler Bookshelf is a collection of pre-configured sample control strategies and screens that simplify the implementation and improve the operational efficiency of a boiler.  Control strategies for Air Control, Fuel Control, Dual Fuel, O2/ CO Trim, Feed Water, Advanced Compensation Drum Level, and Automatic Blow Down are provided.  Sample operation screens that link to the control strategies are also provided cutting the implementation time for System Integrators by up to 50 percent and provide a simple and easy user interface for operators to monitor and control the boiler. 

Why Should I Upgrade?

Most industrial facilities are facing reduced budgets, mounting pressure to improve system reliability and at increasingly lower costs. There are several issues that should convince you that you cannot afford not to upgrade. 

Fuel:

Fuel is often the largest single expense for a facility, and controlling operating variability is critical to efficiency:

a) Fuel variations in pressure, temperature, BTU, pH, burner valve and piping wear, and interactions

b) Combustion air variations in pressure, temperature, and humidity, fan performance, and damper-ducting interactions

c) Exhaust gas and system variations, boiler fouling, stack effect and interaction

d) Fuel and Air Positioning accuracy

e) Control system accuracy, alignment, and synchronization

RELIABILITY:

If your controls are pneumatic or first generation electronics, you know how many problems the system has experienced and the production risks to the operation caused by an obsolete and failure-prone control system. The good news is that Proficy Process Systems with its field-proven hardware, software, and Boiler Bookshelf solution will dramatically improve system reliability.