News & View, Volume 46 | Plant Integrity Assistant – There’s an App for That! PlantTrack App Now Available

News & Views, Volume 46 | Plant Integrity Assistant – There’s an App for That!

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By:  Matt Freeman

PlantTrack App now available

News & View, Volume 46 | Plant Integrity Assistant – There’s an App for That! PlantTrack App Now AvailablePlant engineers must often answer ‘what damage is this piece of equipment susceptible to, and what can we do about it?’ or ‘how much longer can this component continue operating’?   A free app is now available in both the Google Play store and the Apple App store to help answer these and other equipment integrity questions (see figure 1).

The PlantTrack App is a plant integrity assistant that provides life calculators, damage mechanism guides, technical articles, lab sample submittal form, and other functions relevant for plant engineers.  While it is geared towards fossil (both coal and gas) power plants, it has applicability for equipment at other plants as well.  For subscribers to the PlantTrack web application, the mobile app also provides a dashboard view of inspection history, action items, damage tracking results, etc.  Users of the PlantTrack software will recognize some of the features from the ‘PlantTrack Tools’ that have previously been available through a web browser.

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News & View, Volume 44 | Real-Time Damage Tracking with SI Technology and GP Strategies’ EtaPro Expanding Capabilities in Condition-based Pressure-part Integrity Management

News & Views, Volume 44 | Real-Time Damage Tracking with SI Technology and GP Strategies’ EtaPro

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By:  Matt Freeman

Expanding Capabilities in Condition-based Pressure-part Integrity Management

News & View, Volume 44 | Real-Time Damage Tracking with SI Technology and GP Strategies’ EtaPro Expanding Capabilities in Condition-based Pressure-part Integrity ManagementStructural Integrity and GP Strategies recently announced an agreement to bring SI’s technology for calculating, tracking, and trending life consumption of piping and boiler components to GP Strategies EtaPRO real-time monitoring platform (Press release here).  SI has a long history with creep and fatigue damage monitoring applications, most recently with the suite of applications available as part of SI’s PlantTrack platform.  The partnership with GP Strategies brings that technology to EtaPRO, which is used worldwide by power-generating organizations to monitor the performance and reliability of their generation assets.

EtaPRO users will benefit from easy integration of SI’s leading-edge Boiler and Piping Component Reliability (BPCR) modules to quantify damage to high-pressure, high-temperature components such as tubing, piping, headers, and desuperheaters. The BPCR modules track and trend accumulated creep and fatigue damage in real time using SI’s proprietary algorithms that combine actual operating data and material condition with a plant’s specific configuration. Plant operators can use the resulting life consumption estimates to guide asset management decisions, such as changes in operating procedures, targeted inspections, or off-line analysis of anomalous conditions.

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