Performance Testing
Compliance with ASME, ISO, IEC, AGA Codes
Thermal Modeling
TGPS expertise includes the creation of power plant performance models using state-of-the-art software
Performance Training
Our training goal is to become the 'coach' that allows your power plant personnel to make full use of their capacities
Environmental & Instrumentation
TGPS has developed complementary skills to meet rigorous testing schedules, costs, and protocols around the world.
Our team helps power generation companies to measure, monitor, and optimize performance of the following types of power plants:
Types of Performance Testing
Compliance with ASME, IEC, AGA Codes
Contractual Testing
Validate the contractual guarantees of new projects and plant or equipment upgrades
Parameters to evaluate
Guaranteed parameters, such as: Power Output, Heat Rate, equipment efficiency, among others. This applies also to LTSA, and O&M contracts.
Main Goal
Protect the interest of the client to ensure accurate evaluation of the contractual guarantees.
TGPS Roles
Conducting or supervising the performance test for the owner of EPC.
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Diagnostic Testing
Validate the contractual guarantees of new projects and plant or equipment upgrades
Parameters to evaluate
Guaranteed parameters, such as: Power Output, Heat Rate, equipment efficiency, among others. This applies also to LTSA, and O&M contracts.
Main Goal
Protect the interest of the client to ensure accurate evaluation of the contractual guarantees.
TGPS Roles
Conducting or supervising the performance test for the owner of EPC.
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Grid Code Testing
Determine the characteristics of the plant for the grid operator to use in the economic dispatch of the plant.
Parameters to evaluate
Heat consumption curves at full load range, capacity testing, minimum load, startup and shutdown costs
Main Goal
Map the performance of the plant
TGPS Roles
Conducting or witnessing the testing program
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Modeling
Using specialized software, TGPS can model the plant performance that can be used for:
Detailed diagnostic of the plant
Creation of correction curves
Forecast plant performance in a very accurate manner
Model plant modification before implementation
Determine the efficiency of the plant under different set of conditions
Diagnostic Process
Ebsilon®
As-Design Model
- Create the initial model using design information
- Recreate the original design heat balances
- Obtain an interaction over the whole operating range
Field Performance Test
- Conduct a field performance test
- Use precision instrumentation for key variables (output, fuel flow, water flows, etc)
- Test plant at various operating loads
As-Found Model
- Tune the “As-Design” Model using the field testing data
- Recreate the current operation of the plant and adjust efficiencies of equipment to match current conditions
- Generate current Heat Balances and validate
As-Left Model
- Modify the “As-Found” model for the planned modifications of the plant
- Obtain a ranking on the best alternatives to improve plant performance
- Generate heat balances
Ebsilon®
EBSILON® Professional is a system that simulates thermodynamic cycle processes and is used for engineering, designing, and optimizing plants.
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Training
Power Plant operators know the operation of their plant better than anyone else.
Our training goal is to become the “coach” that allows your power plant personnel to make full use of their capacities to maximize your plant efficiency.
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Current training courses:
Environmental & Instrumentation
TGPS has developed complementary skills to meet rigorous testing schedules, costs and protocols around the world.
Emissions Testing
TGPS provides the services to measure the emissions in the exhaust gases of power plants. Our company has a substantial inventory of portable emissions equipment certified and ready to go to site anytime, anywhere.
We follow the applicable ASME and EPA protocols. For international sites we comply with the local environmental regulations.
Some of the most typical parameters are:
- O2 content
- NOx ppm
- SOx ppm
- CO & CO2 content
- Others
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Acoustic Testing
We have conducted acoustics tests of power plants in multiple sites around the world in accordance with the international and local regulations. The purpose of our services is to compare the noise levels to the contractual guarantees.
Our company gets involved in the development of site-specific acoustic testing procedures; the execution of testing and the preparation of the reports.
The most typical tests that we conduct are:
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High-Precision Instrument Rental
TGPS holds a large quantity of testing instrumentation, calibrated and certified (NIST-traceable) in 4 different warehouses located in Canada, Mexico, Ukraine and Saudi Arabia.
The instrumentation we rent reduces the uncertainty levels in the measurement of electrical power, pressure, temperature, differential pressure, humidity and ambient pressure. We provide the data acquisition system (DAQ) and the setup of the equipment on site.
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