Power Plant Operations, Maintenance and Flexibility

Hyatt Regency Birmingham, Birmingham

18 April 2018

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Overview

In recent years the UK energy market hasn’t just evolved, it has gone through some revolutionary changes. The need for more flexible and reliable power plants to meet the needs of the UK market is greater than ever. Providing short term running and frequent starts and a host of non-energy services creates new challenges for both new and ageing assets. These challenges are felt most of all by the operations staff.

Power Plant Operations, Maintenance and Flexibility will bring together power industry professionals to share insights and best practice to address current operational and maintenance challenges facing operators and technology designers.

Benefit from case study insights and presentations of technical solutions from engineers at EDF Energy, RWE Generation, Doosan Babcock and National Grid. Understand how your organisation can more effectively balance plant uptime with asset reliability in order to meet electricity production targets.

KEY SESSIONS AND SPEAKERS FOR 2018 INCLUDE:

Energy Challenges and the Capacity Market
Tim Gregory, Senior EMR Analyst, National Grid
Optimisation of CCGT Flexibility
Matt Farrand-Laine, Lead C&I Engineer, RWE Generation
As Drax Evolves, so does the Cyber Challenge!
Martin Sloan, Group Head of Information Security, Drax Power Limited
The National Electricity Transmission System: A User's Perspective on the Challenges and Opportunities
Martin Kearns, Chief Electrical Engineer, EDF Energy
Optimising Plant Operating Strategy Through Digitally-Enabled Asset Management
Kevin Murray, Static Engineering Lead, Doosan Babcock;
Grant Christie, Asset Management, Doosan Babcock
How Mature Asset Management Practices Delivers Success For Power Plant Owner and Operator - The O&M Trilemma
Sean Grundy, O&M Asset Manager Severn Power, Siemens plc

COMPANIES AT THE PREVIOUS SEMINAR INCLUDED:

Doosan Babcock Energy Ltd E.ON Technologies Frazer-Nash Consultancy Ltd GE Intelligent Platforms RWE Npower Plc VPI Immingham LLP	Scottish Power Generation Generation Projects Ltd E.ON Technologies Black & Veatch 3CB SAS Emerson Power & Water Solutions

FEEDBACK FROM PREVIOUS SEMINAR:

“At last an opportunity for the guys in the front line of power plant operations to get together and share experience.”
Fossil Fuel Committee for the Power Industries Division, Institution of Mechanical Engineers

“An event like this could not come at a better time, the demands on operators of conventional plant are changing with the market shift to greater volumes of renewable energy. This is a great opportunity to share experience on a wide range of topics from optimising start up and shutdown to short term preservation techniques, a must for operators and supporting companies.”
Production Manager, E.ON

"I was delighted to find that ALL speakers shared & touched every corner of my role as Operations Manager and gave me much food for thought to take back to my station and make tweaks & improvements"
Operations Manager, SSE

"An excellent event. Hope there are many more like this on a regular basis"
Principal Engineer, Doosan Babcock Energy Ltd

"Good opportunity for operations personel to network & share experience"
Operations Team Leader, VPI Immingham LLP

"First time attending and found it very useful"
Operations Team Leader, VPI Immingham LLP

"It has been a thoroughly enjoyable event, very interesting and informative"
Steam Turbine Engineer, RWE NPower Plc

ACCOMODATION:

We have an allocation of bedrooms at the Hyatt Regency the night before Powerplants (17th April).

Single occupancy Bed and breakfast is £145 inc. VAT
Double occupancy B&B is £160 inc. VAT

Contact reservations on +44 (0) 845 888 1234 and quote booking reference G-IM19 to secure your discounted accommodation.

Day 1

08:30 - Day 1 Programme

	WEDNESDAY 18^TH APRIL 2018
08:30	REGISTRATION AND REFRESHMENTS
09:00	CHAIR’S OPENING REMARKS Sean Atton, HSE Manager, Drax Power Limited
09.10	KEYNOTE: ENERGY CHALLENGES AND THE CAPACITY MARKET Tim Gregory, Senior EMR Analyst, National Grid
	OPTIMISING OPERATOR INTERFACE AND OPERATING STRATEGY
09:35	OPTIMISATION OF CCGT FLEXIBILITY Matt Farrand-Laine, Lead C&I Engineer, RWE Generation · Reduced start time, reduced gas burn, increased reliability · Improved operator interface, sequencing and alarm handling · Operator development utilising a simulator
10:00	OPTIMISING PLANT OPERATING STRATEGY THROUGH DIGITALLY-ENABLED ASSET MANAGEMENT Graeme Gordon, Project Engineer , Doosan Babcock · Traditional Asset Management tools are no longer best suited to the increasingly challenging operational demands on power plant · How to update best practice approaches to more proactively understand the impact of operations and improve decision making by incorporating digital technologies · This talk (including case studies) demonstrates how a practical digital approach can optimise OPEX & CAPEX investment, and enhance the decision making for hands on operations staff
10:25	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
10:55	ALARMS MANAGEMENT GUIDANCE AND STANDARDS Andrew Lichnowski, Associate Senior Consultant, Engineering Equipment and Material Users Association (EEMUA) · Development of alarms management good practice · EEMUA 191 Alarms Systems: a guide to design, management and procurement · IEC 62682 Standard: management of alarm systems for the process industries
11:20	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
	Safe and compliant operation
11:35	AS DRAX EVOLVES, SO DOES THE CYBER CHALLENGE! Martin Sloan, Group Head of Information Security, Drax Power Limited · What the Security of Networks and Information Systems Directive means to Drax Group and other organisations · Geopolitics, Industrial Cyber Attacks and ever-changing threat landscape with case studies discussed · Buy in and engagement at the board/manager/operator/technician levels (what and what not to say…)
12:00	THE NATIONAL ELECTRICITY TRANSMISSION SYSTEM: A USER’S PERSPECTIVE ON THE CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES Fleet Lead Electrical · Overview of EDF Energy · Overview of Challenges (including inertia and rate of change of frequency, short circuit fault levels, voltage control and black start restoration times) · Opportunities to support the NET System Operator: can inflexible generation flex? And life after generation (Synchronous Compensators)
12:25	NETWORKING LUNCH
13:25	IMPACT OF CHANGING MARKETS ON BOTH OPERATIONAL BEHAVIOUR AND COMPONENT INTEGRITY Colin Wignall, Structural & Flow Analysis Team, Integrity & Inspection Solutions Department, Uniper Technologies Limited · The difficulty of simply relating both temperature and pressure transient responses to damage accumulation · Example of how component design affects both the stresses and damage accumulation · Examples of how the change in the electricity market has influenced plant operation, and the consequences of this, with respect to component damage
13:50	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSSION
	MAINTENANCE AND PRESERVATION OF PLANT
14:05	HOW EXPERIMENTAL RIGS HAVE SUPPORTED SAFE AND EXTENDED OPERATION OF THE AGR BOILERS Eleanor Laney, Chemist, EDF Energy James Meldrum, Senior Consultant, Wood · Introduction to AGR operational boiler chemistry and plant preservation · How the chemistry is controlled · How experimental rigs at Wood have been used for the last 30 years to support continued operation
14:30	MAINTENANCE OF BASELOAD PLANT – A BIOMASS PERSPECTIVE Pete Smithson, Plant Manager, BWSC Generation Services UK Ltd · Obtaining the right balance between reactive and planned maintenance: the challenges faced on a new plant to achieve the correct level of maintenance · Achieving first line maintenance: the opportunities to ensure all persons have ownership for maintenance within their plant area responsibility · Annual outage management: the reality of delivering a first annual outage on a newly commissioned site
14:55	NETWORKING REFRESHMENT BREAK
15:25	HOW MATURE ASSET MANAGEMENT PRACTICES DELIVERS SUCCESS FOR POWER PLANT OWNER AND OPERATOR – THE O&M TRILEMMA Sean Grundy, O&M Asset Manager Severn Power, Siemens plc · The risk to contractual relationships posed by inappropriate decisions · How values and beliefs can create a supplier and client virtual team · The role of Asset Management in win-win decision processes
15:50	LEVERAGING AUGMENTED REALITY: CONNECTING DIGITAL AND PHYSICAL WORLDS IN ENERGY Arjun Chohan, Digital Engineering Solutions, Uniper Technologies Limited · Physical activity on sites can often be isolated from colleague expertise and digital systems · Augmented reality devices such as Microsoft HoloLens offer a powerful means of connecting these otherwise-separated elements · This talk will cover approaches to achieving augmented reality solutions, including both the benefits and challenges
16:15	QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION
16:30	PANEL DISCUSSION: HOW TO MAXIMISE COLLABORATION BETWEEN MAINTENANCE AND OPERATION TEAMS Matt Farrand-Laine, Lead C&I Engineer, RWE Generation Martin Sloan, Group Head of Information Security, Drax Power Limited Pete Smithson, Plant Manager, BWSC Generation Services UK Ltd · Challenges to cooperation · Strategies to increase collaboration and mutual support · How to best implement new ways of working
17:00	CHAIR’S CLOSING REMARKS
17:05	END OF SEMINAR

Martin Sloan: Group Head of Information Security, Drax Power Limited

Martin has been the Head of Security Information at Drax Group for the last year; this expands on his previous role looking after all aspects of security, specializing in cyber assurance in both the corporate and operational enterprises. Before entering private industry, Martin was a senior manager at MoD and led a team of experienced officers tasked with delivering lifesaving intelligence to customers, including law enforcement agencies, policy makers and Ministers. Martin also spent many years in the military, where his background as an electronics engineer, coupled with his human intelligence analysis work, helped him develop a pragmatic approach to problem solving.

Colin Wignall: Structural & Flow Analysis Team, Integrity & Inspection Solutions Department, Uniper Technologies Limited

Colin has over 20 years of experience within the fields of integrity assessment, fracture mechanics and finite element analysis, covering a wide range of industries, with the majority of the experience being within the power generation sector. During the last 15 years, he has been responsible for underwriting the safe operation of many of the pressure parts for a significant number of both the coal and gas-fired power stations within the UK, as well as a number internationally. This has included both life extension work and the preparation of safety cases for components containing defects.

Graeme Gordon: Project Engineer, Doosan Babcock

Graeme Gordon is a Project Engineer with the Integrity Engineering group at Doosan Babcock. He graduated with a MEng in Chemical Engineering from Strathclyde University in 2010. He started a two year graduate training scheme with Doosan Babcock in 2010 undertaking placements within the engineering department and at several power stations in the UK and abroad. Since 2012 he has been working with the Integrity Engineering group, undertaking an extensive range of projects including data analysis work, writing technical reviews and developing inspection scopes in support of PSSR outages

Tim Gregory: Senior EMR Analyst, National Grid

Matt Farrand-Laine: Lead C&I Engineer, RWE Generation

Sean Grundy: O&M Asset Manager Severn Power, Siemens plc

Sean Atton: HSE Manager, Drax Power Limited

Pete Smithson: Plant Manager, BWSC Generation Services UK Ltd

Arjun Chohan: Head of Software Engineering, Uniper Technologies Limited

Simon White: Fleet Lead Electrical, EDF Energy

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