Want to increase efficiency, availability and responsiveness?

If your plant is more than 10 years old, consider having the Controls System Upgrade team at Black & Veatch assess your need for new systems components or total controls replacement. We'll engineer and design modern controls equipment and sophisticated strategies that give you a competitive advantage.

Controls System Upgrades

Plant Improvement Engineering specializes in upgrade of pneumatic, relay logic, and electronic control systems including:

• Burner Management Systems.
• Combustion Control Systems.
• Balance of Plant Systems.
• Data Acquisition and Annunciation Systems.
• Turbine Control Systems.
• Generator Excitation.
• Coal Handling Systems.

Controls System Upgrade Benefits

• Increase ramping response so you can compete on the open market.
• Reduce O&M costs by eliminating obsolete controls.
• Decrease emissions by adapting the system with other optimizing packages.
• Capture more load with documented swing rate handling ability.
• Increase plant availability.
• Handle turn down easier and more efficiently.
• Restore power unit lost efficiently.
• Allow more efficient multi-unit dispatch control.