K-Electric faces business challenges around lack of real-time decision-grade data and plant monitoring across its power generation facilities. This document proposes implementing a virtualized plant data historian system using PI Server to integrate operational data from K-Electric's different power plants in real time. This centralized system would provide real-time performance monitoring, optimization, and reporting capabilities to help K-Electric address issues like fuel optimization, emissions monitoring, and economic dispatch. The proposed solution involves installing virtualized servers and OPC interfaces at each plant to historian plant data in the cloud and make it accessible through a centralized portal.

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Virtualization for Power Industry

2. About K Electric
The Only VERTICAL INTEGRATED utility in Pakistan

3. Overview of KE Generation

4. Business Challenges for KE:
Decision-grade data not available when needed
Plant monitoring is decentralized--- individually at different locations within the plant
No Standardized Performance Calculation tool for determining heat rate, material balance
and KPIs in real-time
No integration of plants operational data with KPI calculation & reporting
Costly and scarce fuel availability raises serious optimization challenges
Combined economic impact of different power plants not available in real time.
Data acquisition processing and calculations are man hour intensive

5. Advantages of Real Time Fleet Performance
Optimization
Enables real-time integrated data reporting and visualization tools to identify new optimization opportunities i.e
instead of isolated monitoring of individual plants; Collective /Fleet performance can be monitored
Enables real time remote monitoring and archiving of deviations in operation parameters and plant
performance
Maintenance planning and availability improvement. Potential identification of faults before they
occur
Identification of generating units where fuel consumption is higher; focus on causes resulting in fuel
wastages
Real Time Environmental Monitoring; Leads to reduction in Green House Gases
Essential for Economic Dispatch. Provides data on Loading Optimization of the Stations .
Analysis of Steam. Feed-water, condensate, air-fuel parameters would assist in efficiency improvement and Aux
Power reduction measures in real time

6. Measure to Manage Approach
“You cannot Manage (effectively)
what you cannot Measure
(Accurately) ”
- Jack Welch

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KElectric Centralized
Plant Data
Historian
Corporate wide plant historian for individual plant
performances, production summaries, alarms/events, KPI etc
Accessible through windows based explorer or Microsoft
office based add-ins tools
Challenge: Islands of Information

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POWER PLANT
DCS/PLC/Control System
Process
Management
Business
Management
Operation
Management
-Thermal Efficiency Plant Factor
-Loss Analysis
-Equipment Performance
-Heat & Mass Balance
-Financial Reports
-Performance Reports
-Loss / profit Analysis
-Plant Indices
-Operating Guidance
-Diary-Electronic Log Book
POWER PLANT
DCS/PLC/Control System ,
,
Online Web
Based
Application
H
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-HMI’s/Screens
-Reports
OPC Interface
OPC Interface
Proposed Application Structure

9.  Utilize an IT approach to Implementation a redundant system and
Systems Management
 05 Distant Plant Locations
 05 FT PI Historian Servers (Virtualized High Availability)
 01 Central FT PI Server & Portal Server HO
 05 Interface/Buffer Nodes
 09 OPC Servers for DCS’s/PLC’s
 (Honeywell, Rockwell, ABB, Emerson, GE, Siemens)
 05 Individual NAS
 05 3G/4G Modems as backup communication with HO
 Users for Excel, Process Display and Web Portal
 Cyber security and Network security via firewalls

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Proposed System Layout – Virtualized Platform

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12. Cabinet Details
• Essentials
– 02 Dell Rack Mounted Servers
– High Speed Switch
– X TB Storage Attached
– VMware, vSphere , vCenter
– OPC Buffer VM’s
– Historian VM’s in High Availability
– 24U Server Cabinet
– Cisco Firewalls

13. Why KE chose Virtualization
• Extended lifespan & easy replacement
• System should be able to run for
years
• Increased reliability
• High Availability of the system
• Virtual Redundant Systems
• Competitive Software Licensing
• KE IT already managing Virtual
Infrastructure
• Reduced operational and lifecycle cost
• Simplified administrative procedures
• Standardized SOPs for Disaster
Recovery Procedures.
• Avanceon – Solutions Expert in the
market

14. Proposed Sample Layouts

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18. Combine Cycle Power Plant
Heat Rate :
Gross Power:
Net Power:
GT 1 efficiency
GT 2 Efficiency
ST Efficiency:

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