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safety is nonnegotiable and because of that it
needs not be mentioned constantly because it is part of everything we do.
Sun Tzu said: The Art of War (Outages) is of vital importance
to the State (Plant). It is a matter of life and death, a road
either to safety or to ruin. Hence it is a subject of inquiry which can
on no account be neglected.
Outages are significant events in any plant. It is generally the only event that can simultaneously increase revenue and decrease cost.
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Outage, planning and execution are significantly different than normal plant
operations and as such need different mind sets, methods
and practices to be successful. Outage Planning
and Execution is it’s own sweet science
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OWNERS AGENTTOE will manage all of the steps of the
outage and report back to PPMS about the outage readiness of each plant at each
step
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Fill in for Plant Management
•Plant Managers•Operation Managers•Maintenance Managers
Outage Development
•Downtime analysis•Heat rate analysis•Generation analysis•Potential component failure analysis•Financial Projection•Cash flows
Engineering
•Work scopes/ RFP’s •Material specifications•Code requirements
Planning
• Scheduling• Spare parts
identification and ordering
• Material identification and ordering
• Outage set up• Contract selection
Project Management
• Critical path• Outage
Management
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TOE will guarantee the “Open and Close” as well as “known work” of the outage from a dollar and schedule
perspective• Note: every outage has
an adjustment to money and schedule after all the discovery work is completed which will need to be mutually agreed upon during the outage
TOE will guarantee the unit comes up and
stays up
• Note: the unit will not come down once released from the outage for anything outage related for 18 month post outage
TOE will guarantee performance of the unit
• Note: we will need to handle each unit’s performance individually
TURNKEY OUTAGES
Frontera Fall 2014•We helped the plant develop plan and schedule two days into the outage the Maintenance Manager quit and we assumed control of the entire outage
•The outage came in on time and the units performance was the best in history
Fibrominn Spring 2015•We helped the plant develop plan and schedule two days into the outage the Maintenance Manager quit and we assumed control of the entire outage
•The outage came in on time and the units performance was the best in history
Parkchester burners Winter 2014
•We were able to get the burners to comply with new RACT Emissions standards while still burning #6 oil by burner modifications. By being able to do this the facility was able to comply while avoiding spending anywhere between 1 and 10 million dollars extra
Detroit Turbine outage Winter 2013
•Unit produces 13% more Megawatts on the same steam flow a net result of approx. $1.5 million in a plant that has an EBITA of $10 million
Detroit controls upgrade Winter 2013
•With the new controls in place we were able to test different operating modalities and identified a different valve line up that yielded a 1% to 2% increase in Megawatt increase that nets the plant approx. $400,000 against an EBITA of $10,000,000
Detroit Black plant Fall 2012
•Planned and executed a black plant in 3 months. Executed 184 distinct tasks in just 132 hours
Berkshire Fall Outage 2012
•Lowed Heat rate significantly unit availability went from 30% to 90%
Detroit Boiler 12 outage Summer 2012
•Saved $300,000 on a budgeted $3,200,000 one week early
Berkshire Spring Outage 2012
•Saved $880,000 on a budgeted $2,000,000 3 days early
Detroit Boiler 13 outage Fall 2011
•Saved $500,000 on a budgeted $3,700,000 two weeks early