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Quickly and easily add more than 80 advanced visualizations to your PI System
Skip the complexity of custom configuration with these proven, ready-to-go, PI System advanced visualization plugins.
Plugin Features
- Clear insights tailored to your environment
- Customizations for industry norms
- Manufacturer curves for easy reference and additional insight
- Custom tagging and configuration options
- Accessible calculation formulae – no black box mysteries
New Plugin
RC Visualizer
Process Innovations and ACI Services have partnered to introduce a new generation Process Plugin for reciprocating compressors. The new plugin makes it easy to add advanced monitoring and alerting for reciprocating compressors to your PI Vision displays.
- Calculate easy-to-read overall health score metrics
- Compare current asset performance with manufacturer specific methodologies, tables, and curves
- Replace irksome number tables with clearly plotted charts and graphs for monitoring displays
- Identify and alert on unsafe operating patterns
- Provide early warnings for slow trend variances from optimal norms
- Maximize asset utilization, extends asset life, and avoids downtime
Advanced Reciprocating Compressor Analytics
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Combustion Gas Turbine Exhaust Temperature Profile
This PI System plugin provides a real-time calculation and polar plot of exhaust gas temperatures and maps to the originating combustion chamber.
Pump Condition Monitor
This tool helps identify pump problems early. It calculates pump efficiency, driver/pump set efficiency, performance factors, suction head, NPSH, discharge head, and total head metrics and plots them against scalable, dynamic reference curves that adjust with pump speed.
Cooling Tower Condition Monitor
This PI System plugin provides detailed information for identifying problems with cooling tower operation or physical conditions.
RC Visualizer: Advanced Reciprocating Compressor Analytics
This PI System plugin provides a real-time calculation and polar plot of exhaust gas temperatures and maps to the originating combustion chamber.
Combustion Gas Turbine Performance Monitor & Plant Heat Rates
This PI System plugin provides real-time compressor efficiencies, expected generator capacity, and expected heat rates based upon compressor inlet temperature and humidity.
Reciprocating Engine Generator Performance Monitor & Plant Heat Rates
This plugin helps with early detection of generator efficiency loss and other problems. It compares real-time generator capacity and heat rates to expected values from manufacturer curves or actual historical data. Curves are customizable and can be easily adjusted at any time.
Pulp Line Condition Monitor
This plugin monitors the performance of the pulp line by comparing real-time drive motor power, water consumption, and chemical and bleaching agent consumption to design and/or expected historical values.
Reverse Osmosis/Desalination Plant Monitor
This plugin monitors the performance of the Reverse Osmosis/desalination plant. It analyzes fresh water production, chemical consumption and energy consumption to provide real-time indication of plant performance compared to design values.
Distillation/Evaporation/ Desalination Plant Monitor
This plugin monitors the performance of the distillation/evaporation/desalination plant. It analyzes freshwater production and energy consumption to provide real-time indication of plant performance compared to design values.
Coking Battery and Oven Monitor and Totalizer
This solution calculates and totalizes key parameters of the coking batteries and ovens.
Transmission & Distribution Losses
This plugin calculates real-time electrical losses throughout the Transmission and Distribution system across all transformers and transmission lines from the source generators to the substations.
Reciprocating Engine Driver Condition Monitor
This module provides real-time actual vs. expected power output capacity and actual vs. expected efficiency based upon manufacturer specifications.
Drum Chemistry Monitor
This plugin plots real-time chemistry indications including pH vs phosphate and silica and cation conductivity vs. drum pressure against expected curves.
Heat Fuel Gas Heater Condition Monitor
This plugin performs thermodynamic calculations on the fuel gas heater, calculating the real-time duty, heat exchanger effectiveness, heat transfer coefficient, and fluid flows.
Turbine Compressed Air Cooler Condition Monitor
This plugin performs thermodynamic calculations on the TCA (Turbine Compressed Air) cooler, calculating the real-time duty, heat exchanger effectiveness, heat transfer coefficient, and fluid flows.
Heat Exchanger Condition Monitor
This plugin performs thermodynamic calculations on the heat exchanger tubes/fins/coils, calculating the real-time duty, heat exchanger effectiveness, heat transfer coefficient, and fluid flows, as appropriate.
Auxiliary Boiler Efficiency & Condition Monitor
This plugin delivers substantial insight into auxiliary boiler performance. It calculates boiler losses in real time in accordance with ASME PTC 4.1 then compares them to expected losses and overall efficiency.
Biomass Boiler Efficiency & Performance Monitor
This plugin calculates boiler efficiency in real time and compares it to expected boiler efficiency based on historical data.
Boiler Efficiency and Performance
This plugin delivers substantial insight into boiler performance. It calculates boiler losses in real time in accordance with ASME PTC 4.1 then compares them to expected losses and overall efficiency.
Turbine Driven Compressor Condition Monitor
This plugin simplifies early identification of problems with turbine driven compressors. It calculates compressor discharge pressure, work (brake horsepower, and both include isentropic efficiency and polytropic efficiency then plots them plots them in real time against scalable, dynamic reference curves that adjust with compressor speed.
Combustion Gas Turbine Power Curves Display (Using Existing KPIs)
This variation of the Combustion Gas Turbine Power Curves plugin (PPI-LNG-CTG-PRF) allows users to customize the plugin with their own existing KPI tags.
Combustion Gas Turbine Power Curves
This plugin compares Corrected Power to Air Inlet Temperature and plots power against the Full Load Output design as well as PCD and WF curves.
Fan Condition Monitor
This plugin quickly identifies issues with fan performance. It calculates fluid power, driver/fan set efficiency, blower efficiency, and total pressure then plots them in real time against scalable, dynamic reference curves that adjust with fan speed.
Blower Condition Monitor
This plugin makes it easy to identify problems with blowers. It calculates fluid power, driver/fan set efficiency, blower efficiency, and total pressure then plots them in real time against scalable, dynamic reference curves that adjust with blower speed.
Turbo-Expander (Expansion Turbine) Condition Monitor
This plugin helps quickly identify potential problems with rotating equipment. It uses gas inlet and outlet conditions to calculate the power extracted by the turbo-expander, applicable efficiencies, and shaft losses.
Liquid Ring Compressor Condition Monitor
This plugin helps identify liquid ring compressor issues early. It calculates compressor stages, overall pressure ratios, free air delivery (FAD), brake horsepower and both isothermal efficiency and volumetric efficiency metrics in real time then plots the values against reference curves.
Centrifugal Compressor Condition Monitor
This tool makes it easy to identify compressor problems early. It calculates discharge pressure, work (brake horsepower), and both isentropic efficiency and polytropic efficiency then plots them against scalable, dynamic reference curves that adjust with compressor speed.
Wind Turbine Condition and Assets Monitor
This plugin compares real-time turbine performance to expected performance. It monitors turbine status for gear boxes, generators, and overall performance issues and organizes wind asset parameters by Region
Wind Turbine Site Capacity Forecast
This plugin predicts wind turbine generator capacity based on weather conditions based on weather forecast feeds from weather.
Solar String Condition Monitor
Assess and capture your DC to AC “performance ratio” by monitoring output vs. ambient light irradiance. This solution monitors the condition and performance of the module DC output, axis trackers, string inverters, and transformers.
Solar Park Model with Weather-based Capacity Forecast
This plugin uses a separate Asset Framework database to create a model for photovoltaic power stations. It regularly reads weather forecast feeds from weather.
Coal Flue Path Emissions & EPA Calculations
This PI System plugin provides all applicable emissions calculations from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) 40 CFR Part 60 (Code of Federal Regulations) per the revision of July 1, 1993.
Adaptive Emissions Optimizer for Coal Boilers
This PI System plugin is an ideal retrofit for meeting the Cross State EPA emissions program requirements.
Deaerator Condition Monitor
This PI System plugin monitors the deaerator to predict the feedwater outlet temperature, terminal temperature difference (TTD), and steam extraction flow.
Boiler Cleanliness Monitor
This PI System plugin models each section of a boiler and calculates the overall heat transfer coefficient in real time.
Detailed Thermodynamic “What If” Model
This PI System plugin features a detailed plant model is built in a PI-AF database integrated with a customized interactive PI ProcessBook display.
Water Cooled Condenser CW Pump Optimizer
This PI System plugin module provides real-time optimal Circulating Pump configuration in order to minimize the net heat rate for the unit or the entire plant.
Feedwater (& DA) Heater Condition Monitor
This PI System plugin helps identify problems with the feedwater heater’s operation or physical condition by comparing differences in expected versus actual results.
Steam Turbine Condition Monitor
This PI System plugin module is useful for identifying loss of efficiency or other turbine problems.
Rankine Plant Operations Cost Analysis
This PI System plugin module calculates real time financial losses or savings (in $/hour) based upon given operational parameters in comparison to the target values.
Boiler & Air Heater Efficiencies (PTC 4.1) & Rankine Cycle Heat Rates
This PI System plugin provides the gross turbine heat cycle rate based upon the boiler’s steam-side heat input to the turbine cycle.
Chiller Performance Monitor & Advisor
This PI System plugin performs thermodynamic calculations on the chiller coils, calculating the real time chiller duty, heat exchanger effectiveness, and heat transfer coefficient.
Combustion Gas Turbine Operations Cost Analysis
This PI System plugin is extremely valuable for identifying immediate opportunities for turbine operations cost savings. It compares operational parameters to expected values and the corresponding effects on unit heat rate (or efficiency) and fuel costs/saving.
Combustion Gas Turbine Weather-based Forecast
This PI System plugin reads weather forecast feeds and inserts hourly forecasted ambient conditions into tables to forecast combustion gas turbine capacity and heat rate using correction curves and historic performance data.
Boiler Feed Pump Condition Monitor
This PI System plugin produces very useful graphics for early identification of boiler feed pump problems and performance degradation.
Fuel Gas Orifice Metering Flowrate (AGA Calcs)
This PI System plugin, based upon American Gas Association (AGA) report numbers 3 & 8, calculates gas compressibility (Z) and real time fuel gas flow.
Generator Reactive Capability
This PI System plugin provides a very handy visualization of real time generator operation compared to the limitations.
Air Cooled Condenser Fan Optimizer
This PI System plugin helps operators optimize ACC Fan configuration to minimize net heat rate for the unit or the entire plant.
Air Cooled Condenser Condition Monitor
This PI System plugin module helps identify indications of problems with condenser operation or physical condition, which often have a substantial impact on plant heat rate.
Water Cooled Condenser Condition Monitor
This PI System plugin module helps identify problems with condenser operations or physical condition that may have a substantial impact on the plant heat rate.
Steam Turbine Condition Monitor
This PI System plugin is useful for identifying Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) integrity issues due to corrosion or other problems.
Heat Recovery Steam Generator Condition Monitor
This PI System plugin is useful for identifying Heat Recovery Steam Generator (HRSG) integrity issues due to corrosion or other problems.
Combustion Gas Turbine Air Filter Change Advisor
This PI System plugin uses financial modeling to determine the most economically advantageous time to replace the CT Compressor Air Inlet Filter.
Combustion Gas Turbine Offline Wash Advisor
This PI System plugin provides a real-time calculation and polar plot of exhaust gas temperatures and maps to the originating combustion chamber.
Combined Cycle Plant Operations Cost Analysis
This PI System plugin identifies opportunities for immediate savings by comparing operational parameters to expected values.
Combined Cycle Plant Power Market Wise
This PI System plugin provides a complete package for market based power plants to effectively manage their assets.
Combined Cycle Model with Weather-based Capacity Forecast
This PI System plugin reads weather forecast and inserts hourly conditions into the model.